R2 founder discusses career as best-selling author

Justin Cronin grew up in New England and attended Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling The Passage trilogy, Mary and O'Neil and The Summer Guest and has been published in multiple journals. He is also the recipient of the Stephen Crane Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. From 2003 to 2012, Cronin was a professor of English at Rice University, where he founded R2: The Rice Review, Rice's literary magazine, in 2004. He now lives with his family in Houston and is currently hard at work on The City of Mirrors, the third and final book in The Passage trilogy.  

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Rice professor, NYT best-seller releases new book

Not all vampires sparkle. Justin Cronin, Rice University English professor emeritus and author of New York Times best-selling novel The Passage, has recently released the second book in his vampire apocalypse trilogy: The Twelve. Back in 2010, Cronin introduced readers to a dark, dystopian world which has been taken over by a virus that turns ordinary people into vicious, blood-sucking monsters. Filled with chilling scenes that are enough to make anyone afraid of the dark, The Passage has been widely acclaimed as one of the best books of the past few years, and fans of the series eagerly awaited The Twelve's release on Oct. 16 of this year. Cronin has frequently been compared to the likes of Michael Crichton and Stephen King, and he has toured all around the country promoting his fresh take on the vampire genre.

Rice's first Coursera class enrolls 54,000

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