Lev Grossman is the author of the New York Times bestselling fantasy novels The Magicians and The Magician King. The Magicians was named one of the best books of 2009 by the New Yorker, and NPR called The Magician King "triumphant--a spellbinding stereograph, a literary adventure novel that is also about a privilege, power and the limits of being human."

The books have drawn praise from, among others, William Gibson, John Green, Audrey Niffenegger, Junot Diaz and Kelly Link. George R.R. Martin said, "the Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea." They've been translated into over 20 languages, and Fox has optioned the screen rights. In 2011 Grossman won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer from the World Science Fiction Society.

Grossman is also a widely known and respected cultural commentator, the New York Times called him "one of this country's smartest and most reliable critics." He is the book reviewer at Time magazine, and he has appeared on Charlie Rose and All Things Considered. His writing on culture and technology has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice, Lingua Franca, Wired, Time Out New York, Entertainment Weekly, US Weekly, the Week, and the Believer, as well as on Salon.com and elsewhere.

He has degrees in literature from Harvard and Yale, and he lives in Brooklyn, NY.