Renee Ahdieh

Renee Ahdieh
Ahdieh at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Born July 7, 1983
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
Period 2010s–present
Genre Young adult fantasy
Website
reneeahdieh.com

Renee Ahdieh (born July 7, 1983) is an American author of Young Adult Fantasy, best known for her New York Times best selling series The Wrath and the Dawn duology.

Early life

Renee Ahdieh was born on July 7, 1983. Since her mother was from South Korea, she spent the first few years of life living with them. Her father is from the United States and the family moved to America where she went on to attend college. She attended college in Chapel Hill and graduated from the University of North Carolina.[1] She currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina where she lives with her husband, Victor, and one dog, named Mushu . She is now known as an American author of Young Adult fantasy.

Career

Ahdieh always enjoyed reading as a young child, and found herself drawn to fantasy, romance, and other young adult novels. As a child of mixed race, since her mother was from South Korea, she found herself drawn to novels that supported diversity. She drew inspiration from a variety of authors, such as Paulo Coelho, Isabel Allende, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rabindranath Tagore, Diana Gabaldon, Naguib Mahfouz, Anne Rice, Salmon Rushdie, and Libba Bray.[2]

On May 12, 2015, G. P. Putnam's Sons released The Wrath and the Dawn, which is the first novel in her duology. For this novel, she envisioned a re-imagining of One Thousand and One Nights from The Arabian Knight series, which is a famous collection of Arabian, Indian, and Persian folktale. She also drew inspiration from her husband’s family, who are Persian.[3] Due to the success of this novel, she soon released the sequel The Rose & the Dagger on April 26, 2016. Though she first imagined this series as a trilogy, her publisher encouraged her to focus on a duology, as to not tire out the series.[4] This led her to create three other short stories that take place in the same world as her duology, but follow the paths of different characters. These three short stories were all released within a few months of each other in 2016.

On May 16, 2017, Ahdieh released Flame in the Mist, which is separate from the world she created for The Wrath and the Dawn. For this novel, she found inspiration in strong female characters, such as Hermione Granger and was highly influenced by Mulan. Since she felt out of place at times as a mixed race child, she finds herself creating novels that expand on different perspectives and wants to create characters that show varying levels of strength.[4]

Her current agent is Barbara Poelle of the Irene Goodman Literature Agency.[4]

Publications

The Wrath and the Dawn Duology
  1. The Wrath & the Dawn: May 12, 2015
  2. The Rose & the Dagger: April 26, 2016
The Wrath and the Dawn Short story
  1. Crown and the Arrow: March 1, 2016
  2. Moth and the Flame: March 22, 2016
  3. Mirror and the Maze: April 26, 2016
The Flame in the Mist Duology
  1. Flame in the Mist: May 16, 2017
  2. Smoke in the Sun: June 5, 2018

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Renee Ahdieh". Teenreads. The Book Report Incorporated. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Renee's Favorite Authors". Goodreads. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Parkin, Lisa. "Interview With Author Renee Ahdieh on "The Wrath and the Dawn"". huffingtonpost.com. Huffington Post. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 Grochowski, Sara. "Q & A with Renee Ahdieh". publisherweekley. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Young Adult E-Book Books - Best Sellers - April 10, 2016". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
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