Mallory R. Evans
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| Born: | March 13, 1983 Chesterfield Missouri, United States of America |
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| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Genres: | Fantasy |
| Debut works: | Beautiful Atrocity |
| Influences: | Takeuchi Naoko, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, Toriyama Akira |
| Website: | http://www.moonprism.com |
Mallory R. Evans, (born March 13, 1983 is an American fiction writer who is better known for her artwork than her work as a writer. Since 2002, Mallory has been creating tiaras by hand, selling them on the Internet to cosplayers. She has even been recognized for some of her artwork featured on the Academy Awards in 2004. Her work in writing is expected to create a cult following and is aimed towards teenagers and young adults, although she says she will shift from that age group and write more children-friendly novels in the future.
[edit] Biography
Mallory Evans was born in Chesterfield, Missouri on March 13, 1983, 130 miles southwest of St. Louis. She lived only with her mother and the two of them moved frequently, and Mallory changed schools and friends often because of this. Perhaps it was such sadness in her childhood that brought on such a dark imagination, but she says little about her childhood, claiming that an illness wiped out her memory as a teenager. School was never Mallory's strong point, and she failed many classes in junior high and high school, due to several truancies, causing her to graduate a year late from Salem High School. After a failed marriage, she enrolled in Kaplan University and claims she maintains excellent grades.
Evans has always had an obsession for culture and learning different languages, and she claims to have a gift for picking up phrases quickly. She says she has learned bits of Hebrew and Italian, but has focused mainly on learning Japanese and Pinyin. Her love of Japanese culture is said to have come from watching Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z and disliking the English dubbing. Before love of Japanese culture, she took an interest in Israel and studied Yiddish, but her reasons for that are unknown. Once high school began, Evans turned her attention towards making friends. She had few friends, and dedicated herself to them and her art classes. Her biggest goal in high school was to be one of the best artists and always have one of her works hanging in the hallway. Many of the classes she took in school were fine arts classes. When asked what her favorite classes are, she says,“Art, English, and P.E."
After high school, Evans began her novel, though she had began sketching her ideas a year earlier as a graphic novel. Deciding against writing a graphic novel, she worked as often as possible on her book, Beauitiful Atrocity. During this time, Evans says there were several major life changes. She lost old friends and gained new ones, and "there was always some sort of drama" that would interfere with her goals. When summer break was over after high school, she began school at Rolla Technical Institute (RTI) for a certificate in business. After one year at RTI, she was married on May 24, 2003, but continued to work on her novel. She and her husband separated one more than one occasion (anonymous source), but only officially decided to divorce mid-2005. It was after this that Evans began classes at Kaplan University. A few months later, she had her novel published.
