About leverus

Lev Grossman is a senior writer at TIME. As TIME's book critic he has written profiles of Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Jonathan Franzen, John Updike, John le Carré, Stephenie Meyer, Khaled Hosseini and J.K. Rowling, among many others. The New York Times has called him one of "this country's smartest and most reliable critics."

Grossman is also TIME's video game critic and one of its lead technology writers. His articles include a cover story on Microsoft's Xbox 360 and in-depth features on the making of the iPod and the iPhone. He has interviewed both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs extensively. As a writer who works on both culture and technology, Grossman has often been among the first to cover important phenomena in popular culture. He wrote TIME’s 2006 Person of the Year story on ‘You,” and he edits TIME’s annual Best Inventions and 10 Ideas issues. He pioneered TIME’s coverage of video games, blogs, viral videos, Facebook and webcomics like Penny Arcade and Achewood. He went to Japan to cover the unveiling of the Nintendo Wii and wrote one of the first major stories on Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight books.

Before he came to Time Grossman earned an undergraduate degree in literature from Harvard and an M.Phil. in comparative literature from Yale. His writing on books, technology and culture has appeared in The Village Voice, Lingua Franca, the New York Times, Time Out NY, Entertainment Weekly, Us Weekly and Salon, among others. Grossman has won awards for both his technology journalism and his literary criticism, and he served as a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. He makes frequent appearances on TV and radio, including ABC's Live with Regis and Kelly, Good Morning America, the Today Show, the View, Fox & Friends, Access Hollywood, CNN, and MSNBC, as well as NPR's All Things Considered, Radio Times and On Point.

Grossman's novel Codex, a literary thriller, was an international bestseller. His new novel The Magicians will be published by Viking in August 2009.