Libba Bray is an author of young adult novels, including the books A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels. The third book in the trilogy, The Sweet Far Thing, is due to be out December 26, 2007. She lived in Texas until she was 26 years old. After that she moved to New York City, New York, where she now lives with her husband and eight-year-old son. Her father was a preacher and her mother, a teacher