The Great Detective

Delia Sherman writes stories and novels for younger readers and adults. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, most recently Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, as well as the collection Young Woman in a Garden. She has written three novels for adults: Through a Brazen Mirror, The Porcelain Dove, and (with Ellen Kushner) The Fall of the Kings. Novels for younger readers are Changeling, The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen and Norton Award-winning The Freedom Maze. The Evil Wizard Smallbone will be published by Candlewick Press in 2016. When she’s not writing, she’s teaching, editing, knitting, and cooking. Though the road is one of her favorite places to be, home base is a rambling apartment in New York City with spouse Ellen Kushner and far too many pieces of paper. Author photo by Augusten Borroughs.