Mackenzi Lee
{{short description|American author}}
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| name = Mackenzi Lee
| image = Mackenzi Lee 2018.jpg
| caption = Lee at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
| birth_name = MacKenzie Van Engelenhoven
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| education = Simmons College (MFA)
| nationality = American
| genre = Historical fiction, non-fiction
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| website = {{URL|mackenzilee.com}}
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Mackenzi Lee (born Mackenzie Van Engelenhoven){{Cite web|last=Jarrard|first=Sydney|date=2017-05-23|title=A Q&A With Mackenzi Lee, Author of the #1 Summer Kids' Indie Next List Pick|url=http://www.bookweb.org/news/qa-mackenzi-lee-author-1-summer-kids%25E2%2580%2599-indie-next-list-pick-36200|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128195120/http://www.bookweb.org/news/qa-mackenzi-lee-author-1-summer-kids%E2%80%99-indie-next-list-pick-36200|archive-date=2017-11-28|access-date=2018-03-17|website=American Booksellers Association|language=en}} is an American author of books for children and young adults. She writes both fiction and non-fiction about topics including sexuality and the role of women throughout history.{{Cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/73969-q-a-with-mackenzi-lee.html |title=Q & A with Mackenzi Lee |last=Grochowski |first=Sara |date=2017-06-13 |website=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en |access-date=2018-03-17}}
Life and career
Lee has a Master of Fine Arts from Simmons University in writing for children and young adults.
Lee's first book, 2015's This Monstrous Thing, was a retelling of Frankenstein and earned Lee the Susan P. Bloom Children's Book Discovery Award. In the promotional period for this book, she began posting on Twitter under the hashtag #BygoneBadassBroads, sharing biographies of notable women beginning with Mary Shelley. This project grew in popularity, and in 2018, Lee published Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World.{{Cite web |url=https://www.themarysue.com/bygone-badass-broads-mackenzi-lee-interview/ |title=Bygone Badass Broads Author Mackenzi Lee Talks About Giving Women Back Their Personhood and Their Place in History |last=Jasper |first=Marykate |date=2018-03-08 |website=www.themarysue.com |language=en |access-date=2018-03-17}}
Her second novel, entitled The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, was a New York Times Best Seller and earned a Stonewall Book Award for its portrayal of a bisexual young man in 18th-century Europe. This novel led to a series of books featuring the Montague siblings and a diverse set of characters whose struggles are presented in an era that didn't necessarily respect diversity.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mackenzilee.com |title=About |website=Mackenzi Lee |language=en-US |access-date=2018-03-17}}
She has contracted with Marvel to write three historical fiction books featuring Marvel antiheroes, beginning with a story about Loki out in September 2019 under the title Loki: Where Mischief Lies.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/a-marvel-book-series-is-coming-from-author-mackenzi-lee-its-going-to-focus-on-the-anti-heroes-7432504 |title=Your Favorite Marvel Villain Is Getting His Own YA Novel |last=Foley |first=Maddy |date=2017-12-07 |website=Bustle |language=en |access-date=2018-03-17}}
Bibliography
- This Monstrous Thing (2015)
- Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World (2018)
- All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages (contributing writer) (2018)
- The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes & Other Dauntless Girls (contributing writer) (2018)
- The History of the World in Fifty Dogs (2019)
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- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (2017)
- The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (2018)
- The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky (2019)
- The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (2021)
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- Loki: Where Mischief Lies (2019)
- Gamora & Nebula: Sisters in Arms (2021)
- The Winter Soldier: Cold Front (2023)
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Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American women novelists
Category:American young adult novelists
Category:Simmons University alumni
Category:American LGBTQ writers
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:Marvel Comics writers