He has interviewed Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, Joan Didion, Jonathan Franzen, J.K. In 2006, he traveled to Japan to cover the unveiling of the Wii console. In writing for Time, he has also covered the consumer electronics industry, reporting on video games, blogs, viral videos and Web comics like Penny Arcade and Achewood. In May 2015, Grossman gave the third annual Tolkien Lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford. He has served as a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and as the chair of the Fiction Awards Panel.
Grossman has written for The New York Times, Wired,, Lingua Franca, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, The Wall Street Journal, and The Village Voice. program in comparative literature for three years at Yale University, but dropped out before completing his dissertation. He graduated from Harvard in 1991 with a degree in literature. He is an alumnus of Lexington High School and Harvard College. So I come at religion as about as much of an outsider as you can be in Western civilization." On the assumption that he was raised Jewish, he has said, "I have this extremely old-world name, and people can invite me to as many Jewish book festivals as they want to-but I wasn't raised Jewish."
Grossman's father was born Jewish and his mother was raised Anglican, but Grossman has said, "I grew up in a very unreligious household. He is the twin brother of video game designer and novelist Austin Grossman, brother of sculptor Bathsheba Grossman, and son of the poet Allen Grossman and the novelist Judith Grossman. Grossman was born on Jin Concord, Massachusetts. His recent work includes the children's book The Silver Arrow, and the screenplay for the film The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, based on his short story. He was the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 to 2016. Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969) is an American novelist and journalist who wrote The Magicians Trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014).
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