Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine is a Young Adult, Children’s, Fantasy and Science Fiction author from New York. Born in 1947, she grew up in New York City where she asserts that her parents Sylvia and David fostered the creative streak that would make her into the writer she is today. Her father was the owner of a commercial art studio while her mother was a playwright who taught theater. Raised in a family of creatives, she was very early on led onto a path of creativity as she watched her sister Rani become a painter. From a very early age, she was an avid reader and loved to read “Peter Pan” by James M. Barrie and the works of the likes of L.M. Montgomery and Louisa May Alcott. Levine initially wanted to follow in the footsteps of her sister and become either a painter or an actress. Early on, she became a member of several theater troops before she lost interest in an acting career.