Author Daniel Kraus

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Daniel Kraus
Born	(1975-06-07) June 7, 1975 (age 48) Midland, Michigan, U.S.

Kraus was born June 7, 1975, in Midland, Michigan, and grew up in Fairfield, Iowa.

In 2009, Kraus published his first novel, The Monster Variations. It was included on the New York Public Library’s “100 Best Stuff for Teens” list in 2010.

His second novel, Rotters, was published in 2011. It won the 2012 Odyssey Award and the Parents' Choice Award Gold Award, and was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. It was also chosen as Booklist Editors’ Choice for 2012 and was included on the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon List 2012. It was produced as an audiobook, and was subsequently included on the American Library Association Amazing Audiobooks List 2012.

In 2013 Kraus published the novel Scowler through Delacorte Books. It won a 2014 Odyssey award.

Trollhunters, published by Disney Hyperion in 2015, was co-authored with Guillermo del Toro, and adapted into the Netflix animated series of the same name.

In October 2015 Kraus published the first half of a two-part epic called The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch. Volume 1, At the Edge of Empire, was an Entertainment Weekly "Best of 2015" title. Volume 2, Empire Decayed, was released in October 2016.

Kraus co-wrote the novelization of The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, based on the popular film of the same name.

It was announced on February 14, 2018, that Kraus would complete the unfinished novel by George A Romero entitled The Living Dead. The book was released in August 2020.

In 2023, Kraus released the novel 'Whalefall' through MTV Entertainment books.

Kraus lives in Chicago with his wife.

Standalone novels

• The Monster Variations (2009, Random House/Delacorte)
• Rotters (2011, Random House/Delacorte)
• Scowler (2013, Random House/Delacorte)
• Blood Sugar (2019, Hard Case Crime)
• Bent Heavens (2020, Macmillan)
• Wrath, with Sharon Moalem (2022, Union Square & Co.)
• Graveyard Girls: 1-2-3-4, I Declare a Thumb War, with Lisi Harrison (2022, Union Square & Co.)
• The Ghost That Ate Us: The Tragic True Story of the Burger City Poltergeist (2022)
• Whalefall (2023, Simon & Schuster)

Filmmaker collaborations

• Trollhunters, with Guillermo del Toro (2015, Disney Hyperion)
• The Shape of Water, with Guillermo del Toro (2017, Feiwel & Friends)
• The Living Dead, with George A. Romero (2020, Macmillan)

The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch

• The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume 1: At the Edge of Empire (2015, Simon & Schuster)
• The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume 2: Empire Decayed (2016, Simon & Schuster)

The Teddies Saga

Illustrated by Rovina Cai

• They Threw Us Away (2020, Holt)
• They Stole Our Hearts (2021, Holt)
• They Set the Fire (2023, Holt)