Tahereh Mafi
| Tahereh Mafi | |
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| Born | 1988 (age 28–29) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Iranian-American |
| Alma mater | Soka University |
| Genre | Young Adult literature |
| Notable works | Shatter Me |
| Spouse | Ransom Riggs (m. 2013–present) |
| Website | |
| taherehbooks |
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Tahereh Mafi (born in 1988) is an Iranian-American, New York Times and USA Today best selling author based in Santa Monica, California. She is known for writing young adult fiction.
Mafi was born in a small town in Connecticut. She is the youngest child of her family and has four older brothers. Mafi's parents are immigrants from Iran. At age 12 she moved with her family to Northern California and at age 14 they moved to Orange County.
Mafi graduated from University High School in Irvine, California. She later graduated from Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California. She has varying levels of competency in eight different languages. She studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain for a semester in college. During this trip she had the opportunity to be fully immersed in the Spanish language.
Before writing her first novel Shatter Me, Mafi stated she wrote five manuscripts in order to better understand how to write a book.
Shatter Me was her first novel and was published on November 15, 2011. Since that point Unravel Me (published on February 5, 2013) and Ignite Me (published on February 4, 2014) have been published. She also has two e-books that go with the Shatter Me series, Destroy Me and Fracture Me. Film rights to Shatter Me have been purchased by 20th Century Fox films.
In August 2016 she released Furthermore, a middle-grade fiction novel about a pale girl living in a world of great color and magic of which she has none.
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