Jonathan Auxier

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Jonathan Auxier is a Canadian-American author of books for young readers, born in 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia, or in Princeton, New Jersey, according to different parts of his Wikipedia entry. He earned a BA from Trinity Western University in 2003 and an MFA in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. After graduating he moved to Los Angeles to work in screenwriting. His first novel, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (2011), began as a side project during graduate school. His other books include Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard (2016), the standalone novels The Night Gardener (2014) and Sweep (2018), and the Fabled Stables series. The Night Gardener won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and was a Governor General's Award finalist, and Sweep won the Governor General's Award. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and three daughters.

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• The Night Gardener (2014) · The Night Gardener Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 finalist mention)

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