Megan Miranda
Megan Miranda | |
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Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Genre | Mystery fiction |
Spouse | Luis Miranda |
Children | 2 |
Megan Miranda is an American author of mystery and suspense novels for young adult and adult readers. Her novels All the Missing Girls and The Last House Guest were both New York Times bestsellers and Reese's Book Club Picks.[1][2]
Career
Miranda earned a degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 and worked in the field of biotechnology before becoming a high school science teacher.[3][4][2][5]
In 2012, Miranda published her first novel, Fracture, about a teenager who awakens from a coma after a near-death experience and finds herself able to predict people's deaths.[6][7] She has since published more than a dozen other novels, including the New York Times bestsellers All the Missing Girls and The Last House Guest.[8][1][2]
All the Missing Girls was Miranda's first novel for adults.[5]
Miranda reportedly uses spreadsheets to plan the plots of her novels.[4]
Private life
Growing up, Miranda lived in New Jersey[9][3][5] and spent time at her grandparents' house in the Poconos.[4]
Miranda lived in Davidson, North Carolina as of July 2023.[4] She has two children and is married to Luis Miranda.[2]
Bibliography
Several of Miranda's adult novels, including All the Missing Girls and The Last House Guest, were published by Simon and Schuster.[9] Several of her young adult novels were published by Penguin Random House[10] and Bloomsbury Publishing.[11]
Young adult
- Fracture (2012)[12]
- Hysteria (2013)
- Vengeance (2014, sequel to Fracture)
- Soulprint (2015)
- The Safest Lies (2016)[13]
- Fragments of the Lost (2019)[14]
- Come Find Me (2019)
Adult
- All the Missing Girls (2012)[5]
- The Perfect Stranger (2017)[15]
- The Last House Guest (2019)
- The Girl from Widow Hills (2020)
- Such a Quiet Place (2021)
- The Last to Vanish (2023)[16]
- The Only Survivors (2023)
- Daughter of Mine (2024)
References
- ^ a b "National Writers Series: Megan Miranda and Emily Henry". Interlochen Public Radio. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ a b c d "A scientific approach to writing fiction". MIT News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
- ^ a b "The Plot Twist of M.I.T. Science Grad-Turned-Mystery Writer Megan Miranda". northernexpress.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
- ^ a b c d Nadworny, Elissa (July 31, 2022). "How do you write a captivating thriller? This author found clues in the woods". NPR. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
- ^ a b c d Lambert, Pam. "A Double Disappearing Act: PW Talks with Megan Miranda". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ "Megan Miranda's 'Fracture': Compelling thriller and romance is life-affirming". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ "Fracture by Megan Miranda". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ "Books by Megan Miranda and Complete Book Reviews". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ a b "Megan Miranda". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ "Megan Miranda". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ "Megan Miranda". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ "Megan Miranda's 'Fracture': Compelling thriller and romance is life-affirming". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
- ^ THE SAFEST LIES.
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ignored (help) - ^ "Megan Miranda on Small Towns, Dark Tourism, and the Art of Slow-Burn Tension". CrimeReads. 2022-07-26. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
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