Lev Grossman is the author of three novels. Of them, he says, "The first was called Warp (St. Martin's, 1997), and you don't really have to worry about it. I never do. The second was called Codex (Harcourt, 2004), and it was a literary thriller, sort of like The Da Vinci Code but with less kung-fu fighting and better scholarship. It was a bestseller in the U.S., Britain and Spain, and possibly other places that didn't tell me. My new book The Magicians (Viking, 2009) is a fantasy novel, and honestly I don't know why I ever wrote any other kind."

Grossman is also a senior writer at Time magazine, where he serves as the book critic and also covers technology. He lives in Brooklyn with the novelist and English professor Sophie Gee.