Lev Grossman

Name:	Lev Grossman
Also Known As:
Occupation:	Novelist, Journalist
Medium:	Novels, Magazine and newspaper articles
Works:	The Magicians series
Official Website(s):	http://levgrossman.com
Fan Website(s):
On Fanlore:	Related pages

Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, best known for his urban fantasy trilogy The Magicians.

On his own experience writing fanfiction

I’ve contributed to fandoms for Harry Potter, Adventure Time, and How to Train Your Dragon, and I would say that the challenges in fanfiction and traditional fiction are essentially the same. In fanfiction you’re working with characters and in worlds created by somebody else, so you don’t start from scratch. But novelists don’t always start from scratch, either. They write about real historical figures, and they borrow characters, the way Jean Rhys did in Wide Sargasso Sea, or Tom Stoppard did in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The trick is to make them your own.

[...]

- Lev Grossman, S.E. Hinton, and Other Authors on the Freedom of Writing Fanfiction by Emma Whitford for Vulture (APR. 13, 2015)

Writing about Fandom

• J.K. Rowling Hogwarts And All (Time Magazine) (2005)
• Grossman tweeted that he is unreservedly pro-fan-fiction, using the hashtag GabaldonFail to disparage another author anti stance.

• The Boy Who Lived Forever (Time Magazine) (2011)

• foreword to Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World a book by Anne Jamison (2013)