“It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.”

American novelist and journalist

Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist. He is best known for the Magicians trilogy, which began with The Magicians in 2009 and continued with The Magician King and The Magician’s Land. He was book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 to 2016. His later work includes the children’s books The Silver Arrow and The Golden Swift, the novel The Bright Sword, a reimagining of the King Arthur legend, and the screenplay for The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, adapted from his short story.