Max Gladstone (born May 28, 1984) is an American author. He is best known for his 2012 debut novel, Three Parts Dead, part of The Craft Sequence, and his urban fantasy serial Bookburners. He is also known for co-authoring the award winning 2019 novella This Is How You Lose the Time War.
Gladstone is a graduate of Yale University where he studied Chinese. He has worked in China, including as a teacher in a rural area of Anhui from 2006 to 2008 and as a translator for a car magazine. In 2013, Gladstone was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
