Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author best known for his books House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Fifty Year Sword, The Little Blue Kite, and The Familiar series.
Danielewski studied English Literature at Yale. He then decided to move to Berkeley, California, where he took a summer program in Latin at the University of California, Berkeley. He also spent time in Paris, preoccupied mostly with writing.
In the early 1990s, he pursued graduate studies at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He later served as an assistant editor and worked on sound for Derrida, a documentary based on the life of the Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher Jacques Derrida.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
House of Leaves (2000)
Only Revolutions (2006)
The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May (2015)
The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest (2015)
The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain (2016)
The Familiar, Volume 4: Hades (2017)
The Familiar, Volume 5: Redwood (2017)
The Little Blue Kite (2019)
Tom’s Crossing (2025)
Novellas
The Whalestoe Letters (2000)
The Fifty Year Sword (2005)
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