Lee Bacon

Lee Bacon (born September 5, 1979) is an American author of the children's books series Joshua Dread (2012), Joshua Dread: The Nameless Hero (2013), and Joshua Dread: The Dominion Key (2014), all published by Random House.[1]

Lee Bacon
Born (1979-09-05) September 5, 1979
Abilene, Texas, United States
OccupationAuthor
Alma materTexas A&M University
Pace University
Period2012–present
GenreChildren's literature
Notable works
  • Joshua Dread
  • Joshua Dread: The Nameless Hero
  • Joshua Dread: Banjour
Website
leebaconbooks.com

Biography

Lee Bacon grew up in Texas.[2] He attended the master’s program in book publishing at Pace University. He then spent two years living in Munich, Germany, where he started writing children's books. He lived in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to New Jersey in 2016.[3]

Books

Bacon's Joshua Dread series was nominated for a 2015 Nutmeg Award[4] and selected for the Spirit of Texas Reading Program by the Texas Library Association.[5]

Joshua Dread has been translated into German (Joshua Schreck)[6] by Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn, French (Jack Vandal)[7] by Amélie Sarn and Spanish (La alucinante vida ¿normal? de Lucas D.)[8] by Marc Viaplana.

A new middle-grade series, Legendtopia was scheduled to be published by Random House in 2016.[9]

Bacon’s recent book, The Last Human, was released in October 2019. The book is set to be adapted into a film by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who will produce and direct the film for TriStar Pictures. Shazam! writer Henry Gayden will write the screenplay. [10]

Bibliography

References
  1. "Lee Bacon". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  2. "Lee Bacon: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  3. "About the Author - Lee Bacon". Leebaconbooks.com. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  4. "2015 Nutmeg Book Award Intermediate Nomineees" (PDF). Nutmegaward.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  5. "Author Feature-Lee Bacon | Texas Library Association". Txla.org. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  6. Lee Bacon. "S. Fischer Verlage - Joshua Schreck (Hardcover)". Fischerverlage.de. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  7. "JACK VANDAL, TOME 1 : IL VEUT SAUVER LE MONDE, SES PARENTS VEULENT LE DÉTRUIRE". Editions Milan. 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  8. "LA ALUCINANTE VIDA ¿NORMAL? DE LUCAS D. (LUCAS D. 1) (EBOOK) - LEE BACON, descargar el eBook". Casadellibro.com. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  9. "The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow: Author Interview with Lee Bacon". Thesecretdmsfilesoffairdaymorrow.blogspot.com. 2015-04-24. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  10. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/phil-lord-chris-millers-last-human-sci-fi-adaptation-lands-at-sony-1185355
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