“Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly."The circus arrives without warning.”

American multimedia artist and novelist

Erin Morgenstern is an American multimedia artist and novelist, known for her fantasy fiction. Her debut novel, The Night Circus, appeared in 2011 and brought her wide attention. The Night Circus was published in more than a dozen languages by 2013 and won the annual Locus Award for Best First Novel. Morgenstern later published The Starless Sea in 2019. She also received an Alex Award in 2012.