Danielle Anne Trussoni is a New York Times, , and Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist, and writes the Dark Matters column for the . She created the podcast, a weekly podcast about the art and business of writing. Her novels have been translated into 33 languages. Her work includes five books: Falling Through the Earth, Angelology, Angelopolis, The Fortress, and The Ancestor. She is the recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Society of America award, the Dana award in the novel, and the New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year for her first book. In addition to being published in The New York Times Book Review, she has also been The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine and Tin House, her writings have been widely anthologized.
Background
Trussoni graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madisonsumma cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in History and English in 1996 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received an MFA in Fiction Writing in 2002. She has lived for extended periods in Japan, Bulgaria, England and France. Trussoni currently lives in New York. She lived in France from 2009-2012 and her memoir, The Fortress, focuses on this period in her life. Trussoni was featured in Season 2 of This American Life. She married the French filmmaker Hadrien Royo in 2016 in Brittany.
Trussoni’s first novel, Angelology, was a literary historical thriller described as “a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind’s greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim.” Angelology received a great deal of attention prior to publication. Seven publishing houses vied for the publishing rights, resulting in a bidding war. Angelology went on to become a New York Times International Bestseller and has been translated into over thirty languages. Angelopolis, the follow up to Angelology, was a New York Times bestseller and was described as "stunning" and "a must-read" by Booklist. Part historical novel, fantasy, love story, thriller, and mystery, it is a continuation of Angelology from the perspective of Verlaine. A third book in the series will be published in installments beginning in the fall.
''The Ancestor''
The Ancestor, a literary gothic novel that explores the darker realms of ancestry and inheritance, was published by William Morrow in April 2020. The book has been widely praised, described by Kirkus Reviews as "an opulently romantic horror tale" and "gothic extravaganza." Publishers Weekly called it "an intense, darkly gothic narrative with elements of mystery, the paranormal, and legendary tales."
