Alex Irvine

Alex Irvine is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, born in 1969 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Maine, and a PhD from the University of Denver, and taught as an assistant professor of English at the University of Maine from 2005 to 2011. His debut novel, A Scattering of Jades (2002), won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and the Crawford Award; he followed it with One King, One Soldier and the World War II-era historical fantasy The Narrows. Irvine has also written extensively for comics, including Daredevil Noir, and produced numerous media tie-in novels for franchises such as Transformers, Iron Man, Batman, and Marvel's Avengers; he won the 2015 Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel for his novelization of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.