Kass Morgan is an American young-adult author and editor who wrote the epic New York Times bestselling science fiction trilogy called The 100 which inspired the CW post-apocalyptic drama television series of the same name about a ragtag batch of juvenile delinquents dispatched from space to recolonize a post-nuclear Earth. She was born July 21, 1984 in New York.
She's had an unhealthy obsession with books that first manifested in third grade when she brought a copy of Mallory and the Dream Horse to her own birthday party.
When Kass was ten, she moved from Brooklyn to Santa Monica where kids thought she was strange for wearing so much black then she went back to the east coast for college where kids thought she was strange for wearing so much pink. Kass studied for a bachelor's degree in English and History at Brown University, reading gothic novels in the library where Edgar Allan Poe conducted secret love affairs, auditioning unsuccessfully for a number of plays, and learning important truths about walking on ice in high heels. After college, she crossed the pond to pursue a Master’s degree in 19th century literature at Oxford which was like attending Hogwarts but with more costume parties.
Kass returned to the states with a deep appreciation for clotted cream, a suitcase full of cocktail dresses, and a thesis on George Eliot that she has since misplaced. She settled in Brooklyn, New York to work in publishing where she lives in constant fear of her Ikea bookcase collapsing and burying her under a mound of science fiction and Victorian novels.
When Kass isn't editing novels for young bookworms to sneak into their own birthday parties, you can find her jostling for table space at Brooklyn coffee shops, asking strangers if she can pet their dogs, and e-mailing her middle school crush to thank him for introducing her to science fiction which turns out to be very fun to write. The 100 is her first book for teenagers. Follow @kassmorganbooks for Twitter updates.
When Kass was ten, she moved from Brooklyn to Santa Monica where kids thought she was strange for wearing so much black then she went back to the east coast for college where kids thought she was strange for wearing so much pink. Kass studied for a bachelor's degree in English and History at Brown University, reading gothic novels in the library where Edgar Allan Poe conducted secret love affairs, auditioning unsuccessfully for a number of plays, and learning important truths about walking on ice in high heels. After college, she crossed the pond to pursue a Master’s degree in 19th century literature at Oxford which was like attending Hogwarts but with more costume parties.
Kass returned to the states with a deep appreciation for clotted cream, a suitcase full of cocktail dresses, and a thesis on George Eliot that she has since misplaced. She settled in Brooklyn, New York to work in publishing where she lives in constant fear of her Ikea bookcase collapsing and burying her under a mound of science fiction and Victorian novels.
When Kass isn't editing novels for young bookworms to sneak into their own birthday parties, you can find her jostling for table space at Brooklyn coffee shops, asking strangers if she can pet their dogs, and e-mailing her middle school crush to thank him for introducing her to science fiction which turns out to be very fun to write. The 100 is her first book for teenagers. Follow @kassmorganbooks for Twitter updates.
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