American young adult novelist
Sabaa Tahir is an American[1] young adult novelist best known for her New York Times-bestselling An Ember in the Ashes, its sequels, and the novel All My Rage.[2]
Two of her novels, An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night, were listed among Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time in 2020.[3] In 2022, her novel All My Rage won the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature[4] and the Michael L. Printz Award.[5]
Tahir has also published non-fiction reviews and essays in The New York Times,[6][7] The Washington Post [8] and Vox.[9]
Life
Tahir grew up in the Mojave Desert in Ridgecrest, California, with her parents and two older brothers.[1] Her parents had emigrated from Pakistan to the United Kingdom before moving their family to the United States.[1] She attended UCLA, during which time she interned at The Washington Post. After graduation, she took a job there as a copy editor.[10] She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]
Bibliography
Fantasy
An Ember in the Ashes series
Graphic novel prequel
- A Thief Among the Trees (2020)
- A Spark Within the Forge (2022)
- TBA
Heir Duology
(Spin-off to An Ember in the Ashes)
Contemporary
Short fiction
- Reirin, From a Certain Point of View, Del Rey, (2017)
- Waiting, Three Sides of a Heart, ed. Natalie C. Parker, Harper Collins (2017)
- News of the Day, The New York Times ed. Veronica Chambers and Jeff Giles, [The New York Times], (2019)
- What the Winds Stole, Magic Has No Borders, ed. Samira Ahmed, Harper Teen (2023)
References
- ^ a b c d "'A Torch Against the Night' author Sabaa Tahir lights fantasy with dark true-life tales". EW.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ "Sabaa Tahir | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ "The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time". Time. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
- ^ "School Library Journal".
- ^ "Printz Winner 'All My Rage' Shares Universal Experiences and Message of Hope Youth Media Awards". School Library Journal.
- ^ "The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks". The New York Times.
- ^ "Katniss Evergreen Hunger Games". The New York Times.
- ^ "MS. MARVEL: Why does Marvel's latest book succeed? Because its new Muslim teen superhero is 'sweet, conflicted and immensely relatable'". The Washington Post.
- ^ "The Ghosts of our Motel".
- ^ Diaz, Shelley. "Chatting with Sabaa Tahir, SLJTeen Live! 2018 Keynote Speaker". School Library Journal. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
