Occupation Novelist Genre Young adult fiction Notable awards Whitney Awards Period 2010-present Role Author | Nationality American Name Jennifer Nielsen Language English Notable works Ascendance Trilogy | |
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Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Middle Grade & Children's Books The False Prince, The Shadow Throne, A Night Divided, Mark of the Thief, Elliot and the Goblin War | ||
The false prince by jennifer a nielsen
Jennifer Anne Nielsen (born 10 July 1971) is an American author known primarily for young adult fiction. Her works include the Ascendance Trilogy, Behind Enemy Lines (one of the books in the Infinity Ring series), The Mark of the Thief, A Night Divided, and the Underworld Chronicles. Nielsen was born and raised in northern Utah and completed her first full manuscript at the age of 11. However, it was abandoned after being turned down by a locksmith for information due to her age. She published Elliot and the Goblin War, the first Underworld Chronicles book, in 2010 and has continued publishing novels since.
In 2013, she won the Whitney Award for Best Middle Grade Novel for The False Prince, the first novel in the Ascendance Trilogy, and the next year she won again in the same category for The Runaway King, its sequel. The paperback reprint of The False Prince put her on the New York Times Bestseller List in March 2013.
