Darkangel (Book One of the Darkangel Series) » (Reissue)

Meredith Ann Pierce is a recognized and well-known author among fans of the young adult fantasy genre and the cross-over adult market. The Darkangel, her very first book, was an ALA Best Book, a New York Times Notable Children's Book, a Parent's Choice Award Superbook, a Booklist Best Book of the Decade, and was honored with the IRA's annual Children's Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal. She has received the Jane Tinkam Broughton Fellowship in Writing for children from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and an Individual Artist Fellowship Special Award for Children's Literature by the Florida Department of State's Division of Cultural Affairs. She currently resides in Florida.

Meredith Ann Pierce wrote The Darkangel (Magic Carpet Books, 1998), her first novel, when she was just twenty-three. The Darkangel received the IRA Children's Book Award and was named an ALA Best of the Best Books 1970-1982 and a Notable Children's Book. Ms. Pierce lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Alexander

"[With] A Gathering of Gargoyles ... the Darkangel trilogy has grown exponentially in richness and - if that is possible - in inventiveness." --Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles