Sarah J. Maas

Maas is married and lives in Pennsylvania. Her son, Taran, was born in June 2018.

In 2008, Maas started sending the story to agents before signing with Tamar Rydzinski of The Laura Dial Literary Agency in 2009. Throne of Glass was purchased in March 2010 by Bloomsbury, who later purchased two additional books in the series. The series is available in 15 countries and 35 languages. Several prequel novellas set two years before the first novel have also been published. Maas is set to write seven books in the series. The second book of the series, Crown of Midnight, was named a New York Times young adult best-seller. In September 2015 it was announced that the Mark Gordon Company had acquired television rights for Throne of Glass. The final book in the series, Kingdom of Ash, was released on October 23, 2018.

On May 16, 2018, Maas announced her third series overall and first adult fantasy series, Crescent City, the first book of which will be titled House of Earth and Blood and was released by Bloomsbury on March 3, 2020.

A Court of Thorns and Roses, Maas' second series, is a loose retelling of the traditional Beauty and the Beast. The first book of the trilogy was written in 2009 but wasn't published until 2015. The series is on its way to becoming a movie.

In 2008, Maas graduated Magna Cum Laude from Hamilton College in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, where she majored in creative writing and minored in religious studies.

Sarah J. Maas (born 5 March 1986) is an American fantasy author, best known for her debut series Throne of Glass, first published in 2012 by Bloomsbury and A Court of Thorns and Roses series, first published in 2015 also by Bloomsbury.

Sarah J. Maas was born on March 5, 1986 in New York City, New York.