Caragh m. obrien biography

Caragh M. O'Brien is an American novelist, best known as the author of the Birthmarked trilogy, a series of young adult, dystopian novels.
Originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, Caragh M. O'Brien grew up in a family of seven children with parents who ran a toy store and loved books.
Caragh M. O'Brien is an American novelist, best known as the author of the Birthmarked trilogy, a series of young adult, dystopian novels.

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Caragh M. O'Brien

Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)

3.89 avg rating — 48,566 ratings — published 2010 — 36 editions

Prized (Birthmarked, #2)

3.98 avg rating — 24,022 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions

Promised (Birthmarked, #3)

3.77 avg rating — 15,399 ratings — published 2012 — 32 editions

The Vault of Dreamers (The Vault of Dreamers, #1)

3.61 avg rating — 6,128 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions

Tortured (Birthmarked, #1.5)

3.83 avg rating — 4,772 ratings — published 2011

Ruled (Birthmarked, #2.5)

3.82 avg rating — 2,067 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions

The Rule of Mirrors (The Vault of Dreamers, #2)

3.81 avg rating — 2,012 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions

The Keep of Ages (The Vault of Dreamers, #3)

3.66 avg rating — 1,009 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions

Birthmarked: Chapters 1-5

4.20 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2012

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Caragh M. O'Brien

Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!

Photo Credit: Tomy O’Brien

A couple of years ago, as I drove across the country with my family from Connecticut to California, the drought in the southern states started me thinking about what’s going to happen to America when climate change really hits. I figured we’d annex Canada and all move north. It wasn’t the nicest idea, and it sparked deeper concerns about how power and politics might evolve in a crisis. Once I threw in babies, too, I had the start of Gaia’s story. People ask me how I became a writer, and the answer’s slow and simple. Take my book-laced girlhood, and my friendship with my best pal neighbor, and my six wild, musical siblings, and my love for my husband and our goofy kids, and certain losses and fears, and my years of writing and teaching, and then put me on a couch with a computer. I try to write the best thing I can.

Series

Books:

The Vault of Dreamers, Septemb

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Caragh M. O'Brien

American novelist

Caragh M. O'Brien is an American novelist, best known as the author of the Birthmarked trilogy, a series of young adult, dystopian novels. Her books take place in a world destroyed by climate change. She also wrote an adult novel, Annie Bot, about a malfunctioning gynoid companion, under the pen name Sierra Greer.^[1]

Early life

O'Brien was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Science in physics, and earned her MA in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.^[2]

Career

Before becoming a full-time writer, O'Brien was a high school teacher. She also published romance novels.^[3]

Personal life

O'Brien is married with three children; two sons and one daughter. She is one of seven children in her family and she has sixteen nieces and six nephews.^[4]

Bibliography

Birthmarked Trilogy

Birthmarked, Roaring Brook Press, 2010^[5]
Prized, Roaring Brook Press, 2011
Promised, Roaring Brook