Danielle Trussoni

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Danielle Trussoni
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Trussoni in 2016
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationMFA in fiction, Iowa Writers' Workshop
Alma mater University of Iowa
Notable awardsNew York Times Best 10 Books of the Year, 2006

The Michener Copernicus Society of American Award

Dana Award in Novel category, 2011
Website
www.danielletrussoni.com

Danielle Anne Trussoni is a New York Times , [1] USA Today , [2] and Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist, [3] and wrote the "Dark Matters" column for the New York Times Book Review for five years, from 2018-2023. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was a Maytag Fellow. Her novels have been translated into 33 languages.

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Her work includes six books: Falling Through the Earth (2006), Angelology (2010), Angelopolis (2012), The Fortress (2016), The Ancestor (2020), and The Puzzle Master (2023). The Puzzle Box is forthcoming in 2024. She is the recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Society of America award, the Dana Award in the novel, and The New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year [4] for her first book. In addition to being published in The New York Times Book Review , she has also been published in The Guardian , The New York Times Magazine , and Tin House. Her writings have been widely anthologized.

Background

She is of Italian descent and grew up in La Crosse, Wisconsin. [5] Trussoni graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in history and English in 1996 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received an MFA in fiction writing in 2002. She has lived for extended periods in Japan, Bulgaria, England, France, and Mexico.

Trussoni currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She lived in France from 2009 to 2012 and her memoir, The Fortress, focuses on this period. She married the French filmmaker Hadrien Royo in 2016 in Brittany. [6]

Writing

The Puzzle Master series

Trussoni's latest books, The Puzzle Master and The Puzzle Box, were bought in a two-book pre-empt from Andrea Walker at Random House [7] in 2022. There was significant foreign rights interest, and subsequently both books will be published in Spain, France, Germany, Romania, Greece, Japan, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Slovakia, Turkey, Latvia, Serbia, and Israel. [8]

The Puzzle Master blends historical research with fictional elements. Described by David Baldacci as "as thrilling as it is erudite with a hero in Mike Brink who is brilliant, vulnerable and brave, with a mind irreversibly changed and enhanced by a tragic accident. In the nimble, talented hands of Trussoni the pages fly with meticulously crafted set pieces routinely punctured by machine gun bursts of visceral action. A fascinating history lesson wrapped in intriguing cryptographic challenges, mitered to ancient religious legends all bound around a locked room conundrum in an eerie gothic mansion of yesteryear, and laced with characters that are broad and deep, authentic and satisfying, this novel has it all and more.  Here’s to the next puzzle Brink finds himself party to. And let’s hope his wonderfully cool dog Conundrum is right by his side as he suits up for round two.”

The setting ranges from an upstate New York women's prison to nineteenth-century Prague to the secrets of the Pierpont Morgan Library, featuring a celebrated puzzle constructor Mike Brink who is thrust into a mystery involving an ancient religious cypher, one that will unlock shocking secrets about the universe, technology, and the fate of humankind. [9]

The Puzzle Box, the follow-up to The Puzzle Master, follows Mike Brink as he attempts to solve a puzzle box in Japan. It is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2024.

The Ancestor

The Ancestor, a literary gothic novel that explores the darker realms of ancestry and inheritance, was published by William Morrow in April 2020. [10] The book has been widely praised, described by Kirkus Reviews as "an opulently romantic horror tale" and "gothic extravaganza". Publishers Weekly called it "an intense, darkly gothic narrative with elements of mystery, the paranormal, and legendary tales".

Angelology series

Trussoni's first novel, Angelology (Viking Press, 2010) is a supernatural thriller described as a "tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind's greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim".[ citation needed ]

Angelology received a great deal of attention prior to publication. Seven publishing houses vied for the publishing rights, resulting in a bidding war.[ citation needed ]Angelology went on to become a New York Times international bestseller and has been translated into over 30 languages.

Angelopolis, the follow-up to Angelology, was a New York Times bestseller and was described as "stunning" and "a must-read" by Booklist . [11] Part historical novel, fantasy, love story, thriller, and mystery, it is a continuation of Angelology from the perspective of Verlaine.

Trussoni plans to continue the series by releasing serialized segments beginning in 2024.

Crypto-Z

Trussoni is the co-creator with Hadrien Royo of the Crypto-Z audio drama podcast, a companion to The Ancestor. Crypto-Z is the story of agent Jane Silver and her partner Felix Bright as they hunt down cryptids. The Crypto-Z world originated when Trussoni was conducting research for her novel The Ancestor and evolved into a scripted audio series, produced in 2019 and early 2020 with voice actors and production team members in New York City, London, and Los Angeles.

Upon release, the podcast landed on Apple's Top 10 list of fiction podcasts. The second and third seasons of the podcast are currently in production, and a game is also in development.

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References

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  2. ↑ "USA Today Best-Selling Books: Angelology". USA Today . 2010. Archived from the original on June 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ "The Overstory, by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ "The 10 Best Books of 2006". The New York Times. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Danielle Trussoni". Macmillan Publishers (US). Retrieved May 19, 2021. Danielle Trussoni grew up in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and now lives in New York City.
  6. ↑ "Une Américaine célèbre se marie à Port-Blanc". Ouest-France (in French). September 5, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Random House".
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