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Naomi Novik was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American, and raised on Polish fairy tales, Baba Yaga, and Tolkien. She studied English Literature at Brown University and did graduate work in Computer Science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game "Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide."
Her first novel, "His Majesty’s Dragon," was published in 2006 along with "Throne of Jade" and "Black Powder War," and has been translated into 23 languages. She has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. The fourth volume of the Temeraire series, "Empire of Ivory," published in September 2007, was a New York Times bestseller, and was followed by bestsellers "Victory of Eagles" and "Tongues of Serpents."
On April 26, 2011, she published "Will Supervillains Be on the Final?," volume one in a new graphic novel series titled Liberty Vocational. She also recently completed writing "League of Dragons," the final Temeraire novel. Her latest book is "Uprooted."
She is one of the founding board members of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the fair-use rights of fan creators, and is herself a fanfic writer and fan vidder.
Naomi lives in New York City with her husband and eight computers. (They multiply.)
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