Displaying an interest in reading at a young age, she read The Lord of the Rings at age six, and developed a love for Jane Austen soon afterward. She is a second-generation American her father's family were Lithuanian Jews, and her mother's family were Polish Catholics. Novik grew up in Roslyn Heights on Long Island. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex, Audie, British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards. Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Naomi Novik (born April 30, 1973) is an American author of speculative fiction. Naomi Novik at a book signing event in Philadelphia, July 2008
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