Samantha Shannon



Samantha Shannon (born 8 November 1991) is a British writer of dystopian and paranormal fiction.[1]

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[hide]  *1 Biography ==Biography[edit] == Shannon was born in Hammersmith and grew up in Ruislip, West London.[2]  She first began writing at the age of fifteen, when she wrote her first novel, Aurora, which remains unpublished.[3]  Shannon attended Bishop Ramsey Schooland read English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford,[4] [1]  graduating from Oxford University in 2013.[5]
 * 2 Bibliography
 * 3 References
 * 4 External links

In 2012 she signed a six-figure book deal with Bloomsbury Publishing, who bid following the London Book Fair, to publish the first three books in a seven-book series, beginning with The Bone Season.[6]  Set in 2059, the events of the novel take place in a London governed by a "security force" called Scion and an Oxford which has become a huge prison.[5]  Film rights to The Bone Season were optioned by Andy Serkis's film company, The Imaginarium Studios, in November 2012.[7] ==Bibliography[edit] ==
 * Aurora (unpublished)[2]
 * The Bone Season (2013)