imes Editor's Pick. Her second novel, The Missing (2007), won the Bram Stoker Award for outstanding novel, was a Publishers Weekly favorite book of the year, and an IHG outstanding novel nominee. The New York Times Book Review recently compared the her to Mary Shelley, extolling The Missing's "mournful end-of-the-world narrative," and her "vision of a society perishing from within, exhausted by its own excesses." Her third novel, Audrey's Door, about a woman who moves into a haunted apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is due out from HarperCollins in October. Langan is currently at work on her fourth novel, Empty Houses. She has published a dozen short stories and several essays. She's a half a thesis short of a Master's Degree in Environmental Toxicology from New York University.
Langan lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, screenwriter/director/children's book author J. T. Petty (The Burrowers, S&Man, Mimic: Sentinel, Soft for Digging), and daughter Clementine. They've got a house rabbit named Lorraine, who hates her vegetables. | |
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