Alexander C. Irvine

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Alexander C. Irvine was born Alexander Christian Irvine on March 22, 1969. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan (1991), an MA from the University of Maine (1996), and a PhD from the University of Denver (2003), and worked as an assistant professor of English at the University of Maine from 2005 to 2011, as well as a reporter for The Phoenix newspaper. His debut novel, A Scattering of Jades (2002), a historical fantasy set in nineteenth-century New York and drawing on Aztec mythology, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and the Crawford Award, both in 2003. He has since written extensively across media tie-in fiction, including novelizations for Marvel films, Batman properties, and Transformers, and worked as a comic book writer for Marvel and DC, including contributions to The Vertigo Encyclopedia. He co-created the pioneering alternate reality game The Beast (2001) and won a 2015 Scribe Award for his novelization of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, alongside recognition from the International Horror Guild and multiple industry innovation awards. In a lighter career footnote, he won $26,000 as a one-day champion on Jeopardy! in 2015. Irvine is married to Lindsay and has twin children, a son and a daughter.

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• A Scattering of Jades (2002) · A Scattering of Jades Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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