Lev Grossman is a novelist and journalist best known for his novels Warp, Codex, and The Magicians Trilogy—The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician’s Land—which is now an original series on SyFy. He is a senior writer and book critic for Time magazine and has written articles for The New York Times, Salon, Entertainment Weekly, and other publications. He has also served as a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and as the chair of the Fiction Awards Panel. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.