Cassandra Clare

Judith Rumelt (born July 27, 1973), better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an
American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal
Instruments.[1][2][3]
Personal life
Clare was born Judith Rumelt, to American parents, in Tehran, Iran. Her parents are Elizabeth
and Richard Rumelt, who are a business school professor and author, respectively.[4] Her
maternal grandfather was film producer Max Rosenberg.[5] Clare is Jewish, and has described
her family as "not religious".[6][7]
As a child, Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England, and France. She
returned to Los Angeles for high school, and from then on split her time
between California and New York, where she worked at various entertainment magazines and
tabloids, including The Hollywood Reporter.[8]
While living in Los Angeles Clare began writing fan fiction using the name Cassandra
Claire. The Draco Trilogy, based on Harry Potter and The Very Secret Diaries, based on The
Lord of the Rings were popular.[9][10] However, she deleted her fan fiction from the Internet
shortly before her first novel, The City of Bones, was published under the name Cassandra
Clare.[1]
She is also friends with author Holly Black, and their books occasionally overlap, Clare
mentioning characters from Black's novels and vice versa, such as Val and Luis from
Black's Valiant.[11]
Clare is also credited by her publisher with creating the "City of Fallen Angels treatment"
where a tangible "letter" from one character to another is attached to the back of physical
copies of a book. The goal is to spur print book sales.[12]
She currently resides in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband, Joshua Lewis, and three
cats.[1][13]
The Mortal Instruments series
Main article: The Mortal Instruments
In 2004, Clare started working on her first-published novel, City of Bones, inspired by the
urban landscape of Manhattan. City of Bones was released by Simon & Schuster in 2007 and
is a contemporary fantasy story revolving around characters Clary Fray, Jace Wayland, and
Simon Lewis, which became a New York Times bestseller upon its release.City of
Ashes and City of Glass completed the first trilogy. A subsequent second trilogy contained
three more books: City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire.
There is a prequel trilogy called The Infernal Devices, which is set in the same universe
as The Mortal Instruments, but set in the Victorian era. This consisting of three
books:Clockwork Angel, published on August 31, 2010, Clockwork Prince, published on
December 6, 2011, and Clockwork Princess, published on March 19, 2013.[14]
A fourth trilogy set in this universe was announced in 2012, to be collectively known as The
Dark Artifices. The new contemporary series will be set in Los Angeles, and follow female
shadowhunter Emma Carstairs, who was introduced in City of Heavenly Fire.[15]
There are also two series of interconnected short stories set in this universe. The first is The
Bane Chronicles, completed in 2014 and written with Sarah Rees Brennan andMaureen

Johnson, and the second is the planned Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, written with
Brennan and Johnson as well as Robin Wasserman.[16]
The Mortal Instruments was made into a film, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013),
by Unique Features and Constantin Film.[17] First-time writer Jessica Postigo wrote the
screenplay,[18] based on the first book in the series.[19] Lily Collins played Clary
Fray and Jamie Campbell Bower played Jace Wayland.
Awards
City of Bones

2010 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers[20]

Finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel of 2007

An American Library Association Teens Top Ten Award winner, 2008[21]

2010 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers[20]

Winner of The 2010 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award[22]

Winner of the 2010 Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Readers Choice
Award[23]

A Texas TAYSHAS title 2010[24]

Shortlisted for the 2010 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award[25]

Shortlisted for The 2010 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award[26]

Shortlisted for The North Carolina School Library Media Association Young Adult
Book Award[27]

Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee (Teen) 2010[28]

Iowa High School Book Award Nominee 2009-2010[29]

North Carolina YA Book Award Nominee 2009-2010[30]

New Hampshire Flume Teen Readers Choice Award Nominee, 2010[31]

Nevada Young Readers Award Nominee 2010[32]

Ohio Buckeye Teen Book Award Nominee, 2009[33]

Oregon Young Adult Network Book Rave Reading List Title 2008[34]

South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee 2009-2010[35]

Shortlisted for the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards[36]

City of Ashes

A 2009 ALA Teens Top Ten Title[37]

Bibliography
The Shadowhunter Chronicles
The Mortal Instruments

City of Bones (March 27, 2007)

City of Ashes (March 28, 2008)

City of Glass (March 24, 2009)

City of Fallen Angels (April 5, 2011)

City of Lost Souls (May 8, 2012)

City of Heavenly Fire (May 27, 2014)

Mortal Instruments Companion Books

The Shadowhunter's Codex (with Joshua Lewis) (October 29, 2013)

The Bane Chronicles (with Sarah Rees Brennan & Maureen Johnson) (20132014;
print edition released November 11, 2014)

Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy (with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson
& Robin Wasserman) (2015; print edition released November 15, 2016)

A History of Notable Shadowhunters and Denizens of Downworld (credited as

Cassandra Cartwright Clare and illustrated by Cassandra Starkweather Jean) (February
18, 2016)
The Infernal Devices

Clockwork Angel (August 31, 2010)

Clockwork Prince (December 6, 2011)

Clockwork Princess (March 19, 2013)

The Dark Artifices

Lady Midnight (March 8, 2016)

Lord of Shadows (April 2017)[38]

The Queen of Air and Darkness (unknown)

The Magisterium Series

This series is co-written with Holly Black.

The Iron Trial (September 9, 2014)

The Copper Gauntlet (September 1, 2015)

The Bronze Key (2016)

The Golden Boy (2017)

The Enemy of Death (2018)

Short fiction

"The Girl's Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord", Turn the Other Chick, ed. Esther
Friesner, Baen Books (2004) (writing as Cassandra Claire)[39]

"Charming", So Fey, ed. Steve Berman, Haworth Press (2007)

"Graffiti", Magic in the Mirrorstone, ed. Steve Berman, Mirrorstone Books (2008)

"Other Boys", The Eternal Kiss, ed. Trisha Telep, Running Press (2009)

"The Mirror House", Vacations from Hell, ed. Farrin Jacobs, HarperCollins (2009)

"I Never", Geektastic, ed. Holly Black and Cecil Castelucci, Little, Brown (2009)

"Cold Hands", ZVU: Zombies Versus Unicorns, ed. Holly Black and Justine
Larbalestier, Simon and Schuster (2010)

"The Perfect Dinner Party" (w/Holly Black), Teeth: Vampire Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow
and Terri Windling, HarperCollins (2011)

"The Rowan Gentleman" (w/Holly Black), in Welcome to Bordertown (2011)

"Sisters Before Misters" (w/Sarah Rees Brennan & Holly Black) in Dark Duets: AllNew Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy (2014)
Fan fiction (writing as Cassandra Claire)

The Draco Trilogy: "Draco Dormiens", "Draco Sinister", and "Draco Veritas" (Harry
Potter)[9]
The Very Secret Diaries (The Lord of the Rings)[10]