Kristin Cashore

Kristin Cashore

Kristin Cashore has written at least 39 books. Their most popular book is Graceling with 472 saves with an average rating of 3.86⭐.

They are best known for writing in the genres Fantasy, Young Adult, and Adventure.

Adventurous, emotional, and tense are their most common moods.

Author Bio

Kristin Cashore grew up in a rural area of the northeast Pennsylvania, as the second of four daughters. During her childhood she read constantly. She received a bachelor's degree from Williams College and a master's from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College, where she worked with Liza Ketchum and was named a Virginia Haviland Scholar. She has worked as a dog runner, a packer in a candy factory, an editorial assistant, and a legal assistant. She is a freelance educational writer who writes content for textbooks and teacher editions, as well as book reviews for The Horn Book Guide and other publications. Since 2008 she also wrote fantasy novels for Young Adults.


She has lived in Pennsylvania, Florida, Sydney, Boston, Cambridge, Austin, Italy and even London before settling, for the moment, in Massachusetts.