Justine Musk | |
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Born | Jennifer Justine Wilson September 2, 1972 Peterborough, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Author |
Notable works | BloodAngel |
Spouse | |
Children | 6 [a] |
Jennifer Justine Musk ( née Wilson; born September 2, 1972) [2] [3] [4] is a Canadian author.
Justine Wilson was born in Peterborough, Ontario, and she spent most of her early life there. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and obtained a degree in English literature.
After college, Wilson moved to Japan, teaching English as a second language (ESL). She subsequently settled in California. [1]
Wilson is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel BloodAngel, [5] published in 2005 by the Roc Books imprint of Penguin Books. Her second book, Uninvited, was released in 2007 and is an unrelated work intended for young-adult readers. A sequel to BloodAngel, Lord of Bones, was released in 2008. [6] Musk was one of the first people to use a site like Pinterest to plan out a novel. [7]
In a 2007 interview, she identified Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux, George R.R. Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Neil Gaiman as authors to whom she could relate her writings. [8] She also described her books as cross-genre fiction.
In January 2000, Wilson married Elon Musk. Their first child was born in 2002 and died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at the age of 10 weeks. [1] [9] Through in vitro fertilization, she gave birth to twins in 2004 and to triplets in 2006. [10] On September 13, 2008, she announced that she and Musk were getting a divorce. [11] She and Musk share custody of their children. [1]
Wilson later wrote an article for Marie Claire detailing ways she thought the marriage was unhealthy, such as Musk's dismissal of her career ambitions, his description of himself as the " alpha" in the relationship, and his pressure for her to become a trophy wife. [1] [12] In 2010, she described herself as a "model former wife", and said she was on good terms with Musk's then-wife, Talulah Riley. [13]
She has stated that she kept the last name Musk for the sake of their children. [14] In 2022, one of their twins officially changed her name to reflect her gender identity, and took Wilson as her surname because she no longer wished to be associated with her father. [15] [16]
Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
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2005 | BloodAngel | Roc imprint, Penguin Books | ISBN 9780451460523 | |
2007 | Uninvited | Paw Prints | ISBN 9781435223806 | |
2008 | Lord of Bones | Roc imprint, Penguin Books | ISBN 9780451462206 | Sequel to BloodAngel |
2009 | "I need more you", in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2 |
Running Press | ISBN 9780762437962 | Short story in a collection of short stories |
2010 | "Lost", in Kiss Me Deadly : 13 Tales of Paranormal Love |
Running Press | ISBN 9780762439492 | Short story in a collection of short stories |
2016 | "Smalltown Canadian girl", in The House that Made Me: Writers Reflect on the Places and People that Defined Them |
Sparkpress | ISBN 9781940716312 | Short story in a collection of short stories |