Cassandra Clare started life to American parents in Tehran. As a child Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England, and France. Clare returned to Los Angeles for university , and from then on split her time between California and New York, where she worked at various entertainment magazines and tabloids including The Hollywood Reporter.
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She is also friends with writer Holly Black, and their works occasionally overlap, Clare mentioning characters from Black's stories and vice versa, such as Val and Luis from Black's Valiant.
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In 2004, Clare started working on her first-published novel City of Bones, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan. City of Bones was published by Simon & Schuster in 2007.
Cassandra Clare
