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Occupation
  
Writer

Name
  
Kiera Cass

Genre
  
Young-adult fiction

Role
  
Writer


Years active
  
2009 - present

Nationality
  
American

Children
  
2

Education
  
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Spouse
  
Callaway Cass (m. 2004)

Nominations
  
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

Books
  
The Selection, The Heir, The Elite, The One, The Prince: A Selection Novella

Similar People
  
Cassandra Clare, Veronica Roth, Marissa Meyer, Richelle Mead, Tahereh Mafi

Profiles

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Kiera Cass (born May 19, 1981) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Selection series.

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Career

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Cass was born and raised in South Carolina and graduated in 1999 from Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach. She is of Puerto Rican descent. She attended Coastal Carolina University before transferring to Radford University. She graduated from Radford with a degree in History.

The first book in The Selection trilogy, The Selection, was published in 2012 by HarperTeen. Television rights for the trilogy were optioned by the CW Television Network and two pilots were filmed, but neither were picked up for a full series. In April 2015, movie rights for The Selection trilogy, The Selection were acquired by Warner Bros.

In May 2013, Cass announced that she would be working on an as-yet untitled series she refers to as 238 on social media, to be published by HarperCollins.

On August 14, 2014, Kiera Cass announced that The Selection series would be expanding into more books. First, The Favorite, was published in 2015. The Heir followed in 2015. Cass announced another book following The Heir, The Crown, which was released on May 3, 2016.

Controversy

On January 12, 2012 a one-star review of Cass' book, The Selection, was posted on the book reviewing site Goodreads, and on the reviewer's blog. Later on the same day, Kiera Cass' literary agent, Elana Roth, posted a series of derogatory tweets on the social networking site Twitter. In a conversation that Cass and Roth believed was private—but was, in fact, public—Roth called the reviewer names and both Roth and Cass collaborated on how best to bump the negative review down and boost positive reviews by manipulating the ranking system themselves. The controversy sparked an article by Publishers Weekly speaking out against this practice and raised an outcry from multiple reviewers, bloggers, and publications against the cyber-bullying of non-professional reviewers by authors and agents.

References

Kiera Cass Wikipedia