Another major character, Bronca, participated in the 1969 Stonewall riots, famous demonstrations for LGBT rights precipitated by a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. For example, one major character, Manny, visits a rock called Shorakkopoch in Inwood Hill Park that memorializes Dutch colonist Peter Minuit’s1626 purchase of Manhattan Island from the indigenous Lenape people. In addition to attributing real historical disasters to cities’ avatars’ deaths, the novel-set during New York City’s “birth”-also alludes to several important events in New York City’s history. The novel also references the 2010 earthquake that seriously damaged Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Modern examples include Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2005. Ancient examples include Pompeii, a Roman city in Italy destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’s volcanic eruption in 79 C.E., and Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital that the Spanish conquered in 1521 and on whose ruins they built Mexico City. The novel cites several real historical disasters as examples of cities dying at birth. If a city’s birth fails and the city’s avatar dies, a massive disaster ensues. In The City We Became (2020), great cities (cities with idiosyncratic histories and cultures) can become sentient and choose a human avatar from among their residents to represent them. Most notably, every installment of her Broken Earth Trilogy won a Hugo Award for Best Novel. Jemisin has won Locus, Nebula, and Hugo Awards for her work. A popularly and critically acclaimed science-fiction writer, N. In addition, she has co-authored a Mass Effect video game franchise tie-in novel with video-game writer Mac Walters, Mass Effect: Andromeda Initiation (2017), and published a book of short stories, How Long ‘til Black Future Month? (2018). She has published nine solo novels: the Inheritance Trilogy, comprised of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), The Broken Kingdoms (2010), and The Kingdom of Gods (2011) the Dreamblood Duology, comprised of The Killing Moon (2012) and The Shadowed Sun (2012) the Broken Earth Trilogy, comprised of The Fifth Season (2015), The Obelisk Gate (2016), and The Stone Sky (2017) and The City We Became (2020), whose sequel The World We Make will be published in 2022. in psychology and from the University of Maryland with a Master’s in Education.

She graduated from Tulane University with a B.S. Though raised in Mobile, Alabama, she frequently visited New York City as she was growing up.

Jemisin was born in 1972 in Iowa City, Iowa.

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