Justine Larbalestier

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Justine Larbalestier is an Australian author of young-adult fiction, born in Sydney in the late 1960s, the daughter of anthropologists. She studied at the University of Sydney, where she was a research fellow in English in the early 1990s. She met the author Scott Westerfeld in New York City in 2000, while researching her doctoral thesis, and they married in 2001; they divide their time between Sydney and New York. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy (2005-2007), whose first book won the Andre Norton Award, completed in Magic's Child, and her career as a novelist runs from 1997 to the present. A Village Voice article of 2007 called her and Westerfeld the East Village It Couple of young-adult literature.

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Books

• Magic or Madness (2005) · Magic or Madness Core Canon
• Magic Lessons (2006) · Magic or Madness Core Canon
• Magic's Child (2007) · Magic or Madness Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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