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Neal Shusterman
Shusterman at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Shusterman at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Born (1962-11-12) November 12, 1962 (age 63)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Irvine
Period1988–present
GenreYoung adult fiction, dystopian fiction, science fiction
Notable works
Notable awardsNational Book Award for Young People's Literature (2015)
Margaret A. Edwards Award (2024)
Children4
Website
storyman.com[dead link]

Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young adult fiction. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book Challenger Deep and his novel, Scythe, was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book.[1][2]

He won the Margaret Edwards Award in 2024 "honoring his significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens."[3]

Early life

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Shusterman was born on November 12, 1962, and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. His family is Jewish.[4]

From a young age, Shusterman was an avid reader. At the age of 16, Shusterman and his family moved to Mexico City.[5] He finished high school there at the American School Foundation and is quoted as saying that "Having an international experience changed my life, giving me a fresh perspective on the world, and a sense of confidence I might not have otherwise."[6] He attended the University of California, Irvine, where he double-majored in psychology and theater, and was also on the varsity swim team.[7][8][9]

Career

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After college, Shusterman worked as an assistant at the Irvin Arthur Associates, a talent agency in Los Angeles, where Lloyd Segan became his agent. Within a year, Shusterman had his first book deal and a screenwriting job. He lives in Florida.[10]

Shusterman has received numerous honors for his books, including the 2005 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and 2008 California Young Reader Medal for The Schwa Was Here, as well as the 2015 National Book Award for Challenger Deep.[11] He served as a judge for the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2012.[12] Unwind has won more than 30 awards and is in development with Constantin Film as a television series.[13]

In 2016, it was announced that his novel Scythe is in development with Universal as a feature film.[14] Challenger Deep was acquired by Disney+ in 2019, and Will McCormack has been selected to write the script.[15]

He has been nominated four times (twice in 2019; 2020; 2023) in different categories of the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and won the Youth Jury Prize in 2019. In March 2023, the German translation of the book Roxy, written with his son Jarrod Shusterman, was nominated by the youth jury.[16]

Shusterman has also written for TV, including the Disney Channel Original Movie Pixel Perfect, and episodes of Goosebumps, Animorphs, and R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series.[17]

Fellow author Orson Scott Card invited Shusterman to write novels parallel to Ender's Game about other characters from the series, but schedules did not permit it, and Card wrote Ender's Shadow and the subsequent series himself.[18]

Awards

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Works

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Fiction series

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The N.O.A.H. Files (with Eric Elfman)

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  • I Am the Walrus (2023)
  • Shock the Monkey (2024)

The Accelerati trilogy (with Eric Elfman)

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  • Tesla's Attic (2014) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[24][25][26]
  • Edison's Alley (2015) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[27][28]
  • Hawking's Hallway (2016) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[29]

Antsy Bonano

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  • The Schwa Was Here (2004) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[30][31]
  • Antsy Does Time (2008) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[32][33]
  • Ship Out of Luck (2013) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[34][35]

Arc of a Scythe

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Dark Fusion

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The Shadow Club Duology

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The Skinjacker trilogy

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The Star Shards Chronicles

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  • Scorpion Shards (1995)[52]
  • Thief of Souls (1999)[53]
  • Shattered Sky (2002)[54][55]

The Unwind dystology

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  • Unwind (2007) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[56][57]
  • UnStrung (2012) (short story) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[58][59]
  • UnWholly (2012) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • UnSouled (2013) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[60][61]
  • UnDivided (2014) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[62][63]
  • UnBound (2015) (short story collection, contains UnStrung)[64]

The X-Files

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  • The X-Files Young Adult Series
  • 3) Bad Sign (1997) [writing as Easton Royce][65] novelization of The X-Files episode Syzygy
  • 10) Dark Matter (1999) [writing as Easton Royce] novelization of The X-Files episode Soft Light
  • The X-Files Young Readers Series
  • 8) Voltage (1996) [writing as Easton Royce] novelization of The X-Files episode D.P.O.
  • 9) E.B.E. (1996) co-authored with Les Martin [writing as Easton Royce] novelization of The X-Files episode E.B.E.

Space: Above and Beyond

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  • 1) The Aliens Approach (1996) [writing as Easton Royce] novelization of the pilot episode of the Space: Above and Beyond TV series
  • 3) Mutiny (1996) [writing as Easton Royce] novelization of the Space: Above and Beyond episode, Mutiny

Other novels

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  • Dissidents (1989)
  • Speeding Bullet (1991)[66]\
  • What Daddy Did (1991) (later renamed Chasing Forgiveness)[67]
  • The Eyes of Kid Midas (1992)[68]
  • The Dark Side of Nowhere (1997) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[69][70]
  • Downsiders (1999)[71][72]
  • Full Tilt (2004) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[73][74]
  • Bruiser (2010) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[75][76]
  • Challenger Deep (2015) illustrated by Brendon Shusterman Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[77]
  • Dry (2018) co-authored with Jarrod Shusterman Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Game Changer (2021) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Roxy (2021) co-authored with Jarrod Shusterman Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Break to You (2024) co-authored with Debra Young and Michelle Knowlden Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • All Better Now (2025) ISBN 9781534432758

Graphic novels

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  • Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust (2023) Illustrated by Andrés Vera Martínez [78]

Picture books

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  • Piggyback Ninja (1994) Illustrated by Joe Boddy

Short stories

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  • Resurrection Bay (2013) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [published only as an ebook][79]

Short story collections

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  • Darkness Creeping: Tales to Trouble Your Sleep (1993)
  • Darkness Creeping II: More Tales to Trouble Your Sleep (1995)
  • Mindquakes: Stories to Shatter Your Brain (1996)
  • Mindstorms: Stories to Blow Your Mind (1996)
  • Mindtwisters: Stories to Shred Your Head (1997)
  • Mindbenders: Stories to Warp Your Brain (2000)
  • Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales (2007)
  • Violent Ends (2015) co-authored with 17 other authors including, Brendon Shusterman, Shaun David Hutchinson, and Beth Revis
  • MindWorks: An Uncanny Compendium of Short Fiction (2025)

Games

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  • How to Host a Murder: Roman Ruins (1997)
  • How to Host a Murder: The Grapes of Frath (1997)
  • How to Host a Teen Mystery: Hot Times at Hollywood High (1997)
  • How to Host a Murder: The Good, the Bad, and the Guilty (1998)
  • How to Host a Murder: Tragical Mystery Tour (1999)
  • How to Host a Teen Mystery: Barbecue with the Vampire (1999)
  • How to Host a Murder: Saturday Night Cleaver (2000)
  • How to Host a Murder: Maiming of the Shrew (2001)
  • How to Host a Teen Mystery: Roswell That Ends Well (2002)
  • How to Host a Murder: An Affair to Dismember (2003)

Nonfiction

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  • Guy Talk (1987)
  • It's Ok to Say No to Cigarettes and Alcohol (1988)
  • Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story (1989) with Cherie Currie
  • Kid Heroes: True Stories of Rescuers, Survivors, and Achievers (1991)

Poems

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  • "Shadows of Doubt" (1993)

Screenwriting credits

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Television

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Film

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