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| Born | 1984 (age 40–41) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. |
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| Education | University of Texas at Austin |
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Robert Jackson Bennett (born 1984) is an American writer of speculative fiction. [1] [2] His fantasy novel The Tainted Cup won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novel. [3]
Robert Jackson Bennett was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [4] He graduated from the University of Texas with special honors in English in 2005, [5] and moved to Austin, Texas. [6]
Bennett's debut as an author was the novel Mr. Shivers (2010). He went on to write The Company Man (2011), The Troupe (2012), and American Elsewhere (2013). [7] [8]
Bennett's fifth novel, City of Stairs (2014), was the first of a fantasy trilogy, The Divine Cities , followed by City of Blades (2016) and City of Miracles (2017). The Divine Cities trilogy was a finalist for Best Series for the 2018 Hugo Awards. [9]
In August 2018, Crown published Bennett's Foundryside , the first installment of his The Founders Trilogy. [10] That book was followed by Shorefall in 2020 and Locklands in 2022.
In February 2024, Del Rey published Bennett's The Tainted Cup , the first book in his The Shadow of the Leviathan series, which won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novel. [3] The book was followed by A Drop of Corruption in 2025; a third is planned. [11]
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