Justin Cronin
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| Justin Cronin | |
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| Born | Justin Cronin New England, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, Professor of English |
| Genres | Horror |
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Justin Cronin is an American author. He has written two novels: Mary and O'Neil and The Summer Guest. Awards he's won for his fiction include the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and the Whiting Writer's Award.[citation needed]
Born and raised in New England, Cronin is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. . He currently lives with his wife and children in Houston, Texas where he is Professor of English at Rice University.
The Houston Chronicle reports that Cronin's recent book deal for a post-apocalyptic vampire trilogy earned him close to 3.75 million dollars. The first book of the series will be called The Passage and will be released in the summer of 2010.
[edit] Bibliography
- Mary and O'Neil (2008)
- The Summer Guest (2009)
- The Passage (2010)
[edit] Film Adaptations
The New York Times reports that Fox 2000 has purchased the film rights to the first book in the trilogy for approximately 1.75 million. It is predicted that the film will be directed by Ridley Scott. Initially Cronin was asking for $3million for outright purchase of the rights to the films as opposed to an option deal. Along with Fox 2000, 3 other studios were bidding for the rights, Universal, Warner Brothers and Sony, with prices around $1.25million.
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