Justin Cronin (born 1962) is an American author. He has written five novels: ''Mary and O'Neil'' and ''The Summer Guest'', as well as a vampire trilogy consisting of ''
The Passage,'' ''
The Twelve'' and ''
City of Mirrors''. He has won the
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and a
Whiting Award
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.
Born and raised in New England, Cronin is a graduate of
Harvard University
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and the
Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught creative writing and was the "Author in-residence" at
La Salle University
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History
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in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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, from 1992 to 2003. He is a former professor of English at
Rice University
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, and he lives with his wife and children in
Houston
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, Texas.
In July 2017, ''Variety'' reported that