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Marie Lu (born Xiwei Lu) was born in 1984 in Wuxi, China and later moved to Beijing.
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In 1989, she and her family moved to the United States in Georgia when she was 5 years old. This was during the Tiananmen Square Protest.
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Marie Lu is still alive and is living in California.
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She attended the University of Southern California and interned at Disney Interactive Studios. She originally studied to become a lawyer.
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Lu wrote her first book, Legend which is a dystopian novel. She wrote 2 more in 2013 and 2014, ending the series.
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Marie Lu wrote another series known as The Young Elites. The other book titles were The Rose Society and The Midnight Star.
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Marie Lu currently live in Los Angeles, California.
