Marie Lu


Marie Lu is an American young adult author. She is best known for the Legend trilogy, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future. The novels form the basis of a film to be produced by Lionsgate.

Early life

Lu was born in 1984 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, and later moved to Beijing. In 1989, she and her family moved to the United States in Texas when she was five years old, during the Tiananmen Square Protest. She attended the University of Southern California and interned at Disney Interactive Studios.

Personal life

Marie Lu is the author of Legend series, the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and Batman Nightwalker in the DC icons series. As of 2016, she lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband, their son and cats.

Works

Legend Series