

On Halloween 2010-2012, Danielewski "conducted" staged readings of the book at the REDCAT Theater inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. A new version with stitched illustrations was released in the United States 2012 (including a limited-edition release featuring a latched box that held the book). His novel The Fifty Year Sword was released in the Netherlands in 2005.

The novel was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. His second novel, Only Revolutions, was released in 2006.

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. In the early 1990s, he pursued graduate studies at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He also spent time in Paris, preoccupied mostly with writing. He then decided to move to Berkeley, California, where he took a summer program in Latin at the University of California, Berkeley. 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.ĭanielewski studied English Literature at Yale. With the release of the series, the New York Times declared Danielewski "America's foremost literary Magus." His latest release, The Little Blue Kite, is in bookstores now.Mark Z. Between 2015-2017, Pantheon released five volumes of The Familiar, each an 880-page installment about a 12-year-old girl who finds a kitten and sets off a chain reaction with global consequences.

In 2015, Danielewski's THROWN, a reflection on Matthew Barney's CREMASTER 2, was displayed at the Guggenheim Museum during its Storylines exhibition. His books have been translated into multiple languages, and his work has been the focus of university classes and literary events. He is the author of the award-winning and bestselling novel House of Leaves, National Book Award finalist Only Rev oluti ons, and the novella The Fifty Year Sword, which was performed on Halloween three years in a row at REDCAT. Danielewski was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles.
