Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld (born May 5 1963) is a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction and young adult literature. He was born in the U.S. state of Texas and now lives in Sydney, Australia and New York City. His book Evolution's Darling was a New York Times Notable Book (2000), and won a Special Citation for the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award. The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds are parts one and two of the same book, originally titled Succession. In 2005 it was published in the UK as one book under the title The Risen Empire.

So Yesterday won a Victorian Premier's Award and Midnighters 1: The Secret Hour won an Aurealis Award. So Yesterday has been optioned to be made into a film by one of the producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine.

Peeps and Uglies were both named as Best Books for Young Adults 2006 by the American Library Association. Uglies series was optioned by Twentieth Century Fox as a possible film series in 2006.^[1]

In 2001, Westerfeld married Australian author Justine Larbalestier.

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His favorite writer is Samuel R. Delany.
His favorite book as a child was Charlotte's Web by E.B. White.
He is a vegetarian.
He loves Thai and Mexican food.
His passion for Thai and Mexican is matched only by his passion for eating eggs, which he does competitively
Breakfast is his favorite meal.
He has studied Japanese, Spanish, and Latin. He is only fluent in English.
He almost never wears jeans.
Previous jobs he has held include composer, factory worker, substitute teacher, textbook editor, software designer, and ghostwriter.
He is "bisummeral", residing in NYC and Sydney during the summer season of each.
He is part of a writers' group that also includes Maureen Johnson; they meet daily in New York to write. Sometimes they are joined by Larbalestier.
He and his wife like to joke about their last names, combining them to create Westerlestier or Larbalesterfeld.