Cassandra Clare Explained

Birth Name:Judith Rumelt
Cassandra Clare
Birth Date:27 July 1973
Birth Place:Tehran, Iran
Occupation:Author
Genre:Young adult fiction
Nationality:American
Movement:Contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, fantasy of manners
Notableworks:The Mortal Instruments series
Spouse:Joshua Lewis
Relatives:Richard Rumelt (father)
Max Rosenberg (grandfather)

Judith Lewis (née Rumelt; born July 27, 1973), better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Personal life

Clare was born Judith Rumelt to American parents in Tehran, Iran. She is the daughter of Richard Rumelt, a business school professor and author. Her maternal grandfather was film producer Max Rosenberg.[5] Clare is Jewish and has described her family as "not religious".[6] [7]

As a child, Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England, and France. She returned to Los Angeles for high school and from then on, split her time between California and New York City, where she worked at various entertainment magazines and tabloids, including The Hollywood Reporter.[8]

She is also friends with the author Holly Black, and their books occasionally overlap, Clare mentioning characters from Black's novels and vice versa, such as Val and Luis from Black's Valiant.[9]

Her publisher also credits Clare with creating the "City of Fallen Angels treatment" where a tangible "letter" from one character to another is attached to the back of physical copies of a book. The goal is to spur print book sales.[10]

, Clare resides in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband, Joshua Lewis, and three cats.[11]

The Mortal Instruments series

See main article: The Mortal Instruments. In 2004, Clare started working on her first published novel, City of Bones, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan. City of Bones was released by Simon & Schuster in 2007 and is a contemporary fantasy story revolving around characters Clary Fray, Jace Wayland, and Simon Lewis, which became a New York Times bestseller upon its release. City of Ashes and City of Glass completed the first trilogy. A subsequent second trilogy contained three more books: City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire.

There is a prequel trilogy called The Infernal Devices, set in the same universe as The Mortal Instruments, but set in the Victorian era. This consists of three books: Clockwork Angel, published on August 31, 2010, Clockwork Prince, published on December 6, 2011, and Clockwork Princess, posted on March 19, 2013.[12]

A fourth trilogy set in this universe was announced in 2012, collectively known as The Dark Artifices. The new contemporary series is set in Los Angeles and follow female shadowhunter Emma Carstairs, who was introduced in City of Heavenly Fire.[13] The first book, Lady Midnight, was released in March 2016; the second, Lord of Shadows was released in April 2017; the third, Queen of Air and Darkness was released on December 4, 2018.[14]

There are also two series of interconnected short stories set in this universe. The first is The Bane Chronicles, completed in 2014 and written with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson, and the second is the planned Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, written with Brennan and Johnson as well as Robin Wasserman.[15]

The first book in The Mortal Instruments was made into a film, (2013), by Unique Features and Constantin Film.[16] First-time writer Jessica Postigo wrote the screenplay.[17] [18] Lily Collins played Clary Fray and Jamie Campbell Bower played Jace Wayland.

After a disappointing box office performance, subsequent movies in the series were canceled. A television adaptation of The Mortal Instruments called began airing in January 2016. It was canceled after the third season.[19]

Plagiarism accusations

Clare was accused of plagiarism dating back to 2000–2001 when she was writing the fan fiction work The Draco Trilogy.[20] [21] The Christian Science Monitor wrote in 2013 about how Clare's plagiarism and cyberbullying angered many in the Harry Potter online fandom community.[22] Later that year, The Daily Dot described how Clare had copied much of a chapter of The Secret Country (1985), an out-of-print fantasy novel by Pamela Dean, into Clare's own The Draco Trilogy, without attribution to Dean.[23] [24] A complaint by another website user in mid-2001 led to a review by FanFiction.Net administrators, resulting in Clare banned for plagiarism and her writings removed from the website.[25] [26] Clare continued to post her trilogy on a fan fiction Yahoo! group until the series was complete in 2006. She recycled many ideas from The Draco Trilogy into her best-selling book series Mortal Instruments.[24]

Best-selling fantasy novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon sued Clare over claims that Clare copied aspects of Kenyon's Dark-Hunters series (1998) for Clare's Shadowhunters series.[27] The lawsuit contended that characters are similar, that "elements are virtually identical" between the books, and that the term "shadow hunters" was copied.[28] Clare's lawyers released a statement saying that Clare had never read any of Kenyon's books. Simon & Schuster, Clare's publisher, did not comment.[29] Kenyon later removed the central accusation of copyright violation from the lawsuit, leaving the peripheral issue of cover art and branding similarities. She eventually settled out of court, and paid her own legal fees.[30] [31]

Awards

City of Bones

City of Ashes

City of Fallen Angels

City of Heavenly Fire

Bibliography

The Shadowhunter Chronicles

The Mortal Instruments

Mortal Instruments companion books

Mortal Instruments graphic novels

Art by Cassandra Jean.

Mortal Instruments coloring books

The Infernal Devices

Infernal Devices graphic novels

Art by HyeKyung Baek.

The Dark Artifices

The Eldest Curses

This series is co-written with Wesley Chu.

The Last Hours

The Wicked Powers

In Fire Foretold series

The Magisterium series

This series is written with Holly Black.

The Chronicles of Castellane series

Short fiction

Fan fiction (writing as Cassandra Claire)

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Alter. Alexandra. The New Queen of Fantasy: Cassandra Clare's Breakout. https://web.archive.org/web/20150215210828/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303734204577464593388416630. dead. February 15, 2015. The Wall Street Journal. June 15, 2012. D2.
  2. News: Dill. Margo L.. Potter Phenomenon. The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. March 14, 2010. F-3. July 15, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200413215500/https://login.ez.ccclib.org/login?qurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.newsbank.com%2Fopenurl%3Fctx_ver%3Dz39.88-2004%26rft_id%3Dinfo%3Asid%2Fiw.newsbank.com%3AAWNB%3ACNGB%26rft_val_format%3Dinfo%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx%26rft_dat%3D12ECF021D88D2030%26svc_dat%3DInfoWeb%3Aaggregated5%26req_dat%3D0EB86A1ACEB153DD. April 13, 2020. dead.
  3. News: Best Sellers : Children's Books . April 22, 2007 . The New York Times. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131002211701/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/bestseller/0422bestchildren.html . October 2, 2013 .
  4. Web site: Copyright Clash over Demon-Fighting Stories. February 8, 2016.
  5. Web site: Obituary: Max Rosenberg. Reed. Christopher. June 22, 2004. The Guardian. en. June 26, 2018.
  6. Web site: Clare. Cassandara. The first chapter of City of Fallen Angels (and POV). February 27, 2011.
  7. Web site: Kids' Q&A Cassandra Clare. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120815055926/http://www.powells.com/kidsqa/clare.html. August 15, 2012.
  8. Web site: Author's bio at Sony.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111005080729/http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/cassandra-claire/mortal-instruments-trilogy-sample-of-the-citys/_/R-400000000000000168871 . October 5, 2011 .
  9. Web site: Is that Val and Luis from Holly Black's Valiant in that scene in City of Bones where Jace and Clary are going downtown with the Silent Brother?. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110411004931/http://www.cassandraclare.com/cms/faqs#valiant. April 11, 2011.
  10. News: Kaplan. David A.. A most unusual father-daughter professional pairing. CNN Money. August 29, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120830091743/http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/29/cassandra-clare-richard-rumelt/. August 30, 2012.
  11. Web site: Cassandra Clare & Joshua Lewis Pen The Shadowhunters Codex. dead. https://archive.today/20130704004217/http://www.cbcbooks.org/sub-news.php?id=847. July 4, 2013.
  12. Web site: What are the publication dates of Clockwork Princess and City of Heavenly Fire?. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120530014806/http://www.cassandraclare.com/?qa_faqs=publication. May 30, 2012.
  13. News: Cassandra Clare To Write 'The Dark Artifices,' A Fantasy Series Set In Los Angeles . The Huffington Post . May 14, 2012 . December 9, 2014 . Italie, Hillel . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140401061520/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/cassandra-clare-the-dark-artifices_n_1344566.html . April 1, 2014 .
  14. Web site: Clare. Cassandra. March 2016: Lady Midnight (Dark Artifices 1) September 2016 = The Bronze Key April 2017: Lord of Shadows. January 17, 2016.
  15. Cassandra Clare and co. to launch Shadowhunter e-series . Entertainment Weekly . October 14, 2014 . December 9, 2014 . Brissey, Breia.
  16. Web site: Cassandra Clare's Blog 23 August 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090828205154/http://cassandraclare.livejournal.com/33056.html . August 28, 2009 .
  17. Web site: The Mortal Instruments IMDB page. .
  18. Web site: movie news . Clare . Cassandra . October 4, 2010 . Cassandra Clare's Blog . . May 13, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721185221/http://cassandraclare.livejournal.com/43587.html . July 21, 2011 .
  19. Web site: 'Shadowhunters' to End After 3 Seasons, Freeform Orders 2-Hour Finale to Wrap Series in 2019. June 5, 2018.
  20. Web site: Weiss . Sabrina Rojas . January 13, 2016 . Why Cassandra Clare Is One The Most Controversial YA Authors in History . 2022-07-31 . Refinery29.
  21. Web site: Staff . Distractify . 2020-08-28 . Before 'Mortal Instruments' YA Author Cassandra Clare Faced Accusations of Plagiarism . 2022-07-31 . Distractify .
  22. News: 10 most controversial authors (in recent memory) . Frederick . Ben . March 11, 2013 . . September 26, 2023.
  23. News: Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule . Green . Penelope . April 23, 2016 . . September 26, 2023.
  24. Web site: A beginner's guide to Cassandra Clare and her 'Mortal Instruments' . August 2, 2013 . Baker-Whitelaw . Gavia . . September 26, 2023.
  25. News: Cassandra Clare signs up for new LA fantasy series . Italie . Hillel . March 14, 2012 . . . September 26, 2023.
  26. Web site: Guarino . Cristina . September 16, 2013 . 'Cassiegate': Cassandra Clare's Alleged Plagiarism in The Mortal Instruments . Paper Droids . https://web.archive.org/web/20140324101304/http://www.paperdroids.com/2013/09/16/cassiegate-cassandra-clares-alleged-plagarism-in-the-mortal-instruments/ . March 24, 2014 . September 26, 2023.
  27. February 10, 2016 . Isabella . Biedenharn . Cassandra Clare sued for copyright infringement over Shadowhunter series . 2022-07-31 . Entertainment Weekly.
  28. Miller . Laura . February 17, 2016 . A No. 1 Best-Selling Author Sues Another No. 1 Best-Selling Author, and It Gets Ugly . 2022-07-31 . Slate.
  29. Web site: 2016-02-10 . Sherrilyn Kenyon sues Cassandra Clare for 'wilfully copying' her novels . 2022-07-31 . The Guardian.
  30. Web site: 'I Really Thought He Was Going to Kill Me and Bury My Body' A romance author accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet? . . Shapiro . Lila . June 19, 2019 . September 26, 2023.
  31. News: Best-selling paranormal romance writer accuses her husband of a 'Shakespearean plot' to poison her . https://web.archive.org/web/20190117194234/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/17/best-selling-paranormal-romance-writer-accuses-her-husband-shakespearean-plot-poison-her/ . Stanley-Becker . Isaac . January 17, 2019 . . September 26, 2023 . January 17, 2019 .
  32. Web site: 2010 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Winner Announced. July 1, 2010. Georgia Library Media Association.
  33. Web site: The 2008 Teens' Top Ten. July 30, 2010. Young Adult Library Services Association.
  34. Web site: Illinois' High School Readers' Choice Award. July 30, 2010. Illinois School Library Media Association. September 5, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160905214218/http://www.islma.org/lincoln.htm. dead.
  35. Web site: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award. July 30, 2010. Pacific Northwest Library Association. https://web.archive.org/web/20101128132126/http://pnla.org/yrca/2010nominees.html. November 28, 2010. dead.
  36. Web site: Texas TAYSHAS title 2010. July 30, 2010. Texas Library Association. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100820002647/http://www.txla2.org/groups/yart/Assets/Files/tayshas/tay0910a.pdf. August 20, 2010.
  37. Web site: Evergreen Young Adult Book Award. April 30, 2010. King County Library System. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100725000555/http://www.kcls.org/evergreen/nominees/index.cfm. July 25, 2010.
  38. Web site: Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award. July 30, 2010. Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book World. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100707103809/http://www.cal-webs.org/bluespruce/all_nominations.pdf. July 7, 2010.
  39. Web site: NCSLMA YA Book Award. https://archive.today/20130103122605/http://sites.google.com/site/ncslmayabookaward/high-school/2009-2010-hs-annotated-list. dead. January 3, 2013. July 30, 2010. North Carolina School Library Media Association.
  40. Web site: Oregon Young Adult Network Book Rave List. https://web.archive.org/web/20100707094708/http://www.olaweb.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=68192. dead. July 7, 2010. July 31, 2010. Oregon Library Association.
  41. Web site: Coventry Inspiration Book Awards. July 31, 2010. Coventry City Council. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100204222923/http://myvotes.coventry.gov.uk/. February 4, 2010.
  42. Web site: 2009 ALA Teens Top Ten. July 31, 2010. Young Adult Library Services Association.
  43. Web site: Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction! . Goodreads . 13 March 2023.
  44. Web site: Cover Reveal: 'Queen of Air and Darkness' coming December 4, 2018. November 12, 2017. TMISource.
  45. Exclusive Cover Reveal + Q&A: Behold Cassandra Clare's Adult Fantasy Debut Sword Catcher. January 12, 2023. Paste Magazine. January 13, 2023.
  46. Book: Friesner, Esther. Turn the Other Chick. 2004. Baen Books. 0743488571. registration.
  47. Web site: The Times article on The Draco Trilogy. https://archive.today/20120709050010/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article782039.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2. dead. July 9, 2012.
  48. Web site: Author's Bio at LookingGlassReview.com.

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