Scott David Westerfeld was born on May 5,1963 and is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the Uglies and the Leviathan series.
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10 Facts About Scott Westerfeld
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Scott Westerfeld saw his father working with planes, submarines, and the Apollo missions.
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Scott Westerfeld began composing music as a teenager and composes music for modern dance.
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Scott Westerfeld is best known for the Uglies series, including the spin-off graphic novel series Shay's Story.
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Scott Westerfeld began his career writing novels for adults, but switched to YA literature with his Midnighters trilogy.
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Scott Westerfeld has written four YA novels that take place in New York City: Peeps, The Last Days, So Yesterday, and Afterworlds.
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Scott Westerfeld has written the Leviathan series, an alternate history trilogy set in World War I consisting of Leviathan, Behemoth and Goliath, plus its illustrated guide The Manual of Aeronautics.
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In 2017, Scott Westerfeld produced a graphic novel with illustrations by Alex Puvilland titled The Spill Zone.
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Major theme in Scott Westerfeld's work is the idea of free thinking or questioning authority.
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Scott Westerfeld finds a group of runaway uglies who refuse to conform to social norms that includes undergoing cosmetic surgery.
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