Dashner, James (1972-…), is an American author of fantasy and science fiction for children and young adults. He is best known for his popular “Maze Runner” series. The series follows the adventures of Thomas, a teenage boy who wakes up in an elevator to find himself in the center of a maze community of other teenage boys. The maze is in a place the boys call the Glade. None of the boys has any memory except his name. Each month, food and a new boy arrive in the elevator. After a girl arrives with a terrifying message, everything changes in the Glade as the boys seek to solve the code of the maze and escape.
The “Maze Runner” series began with The Maze Runner (2009). The other books in the series are The Scorch Trials (2010), The Death Cure (2011), The Kill Order (2012), and The Fever Code (2016). A motion-picture adaptation of The Maze Runner became a box-office hit in 2014, followed by Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018).
Dashner was born on Nov. 26, 1972, in Austell, Georgia. He received a master’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University in 1999. Dashner worked in finance before becoming a full-time writer. His first book was A Door in the Woods (2003), the first in the “Jimmy Fincher Saga” series. Dashner’s other series include “13th Reality,” which began with The Journal of Curious Letters (2008); and “Mortality Doctrine,” which began with The Eye of Minds (2013). He also wrote two volumes in the popular “Infinity Ring” series of young adult science-fiction adventure books, A Mutiny in Time (2012) and The Iron Empire (2014).
