Justin Cronin

Justin Cronin is an American novelist and professor of English at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is best known for The Passage Trilogy, a sweeping post-apocalyptic horror and science fiction series comprising The Passage (2010), The Twelve (2012), and The City of Mirrors (2016), which was adapted for a television series by Fox. Cronin studied at Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his earlier literary fiction, including Mary and O'Neil (2001) and The Summer Guest (2004), was critically acclaimed, with Mary and O'Neil winning the PEN/Hemingway Award. His shift to genre-bending epic fiction with The Passage brought him enormous commercial success without sacrificing the literary craftsmanship that distinguished his earlier work. Cronin's work is notable for its epic scope, its richly drawn characters, and its synthesis of literary fiction with the propulsive energy of genre storytelling. The Twelve, the second novel in the trilogy, won the Goodreads Choice Award for Horror in 2012. He continues to teach creative writing while working on new fiction projects.