Justin Cronin (born 1962) is an American author. He has written six novels: Mary and O'Neil, The Ferryman, and The Summer Guest, as well as a vampire trilogy consisting of The Passage, The Twelve and The City of Mirrors. He has won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the Stephen Crane Prize, and a Whiting Award.^[1]

Born and raised in New England, Cronin is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught creative writing and was the "Author in-residence" at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1992 to 2003. He is a former professor of English at Rice University, and he lives with his wife and children in Houston, Texas.^[2]

In July 2017, Variety reported that Fox 2000 had bought the screen rights to Cronin's vampire trilogy.^[3] The first book of the series, The Passage, was released in June 2010.^[4] It garnered mainly favorable reviews.^[5][6] The book has been adapted by Fox into a television series, with Cronin credited as a co-producer.^[7]

• A Short History of the Long Ball (1990)
• Mary and O'Neil (2001) – Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and The Stephen Crane Prize from Book of the Month Club
• The Summer Guest (2004)
• The Passage (2010) (Book 1 of The Passage Trilogy)
• The Twelve (2012)^[8] (Book 2 of The Passage Trilogy)
• The City of Mirrors (2016)^[9] (Book 3 of The Passage Trilogy)
• The Ferryman (2023)

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• An Interview with Justin Cronin Archived February 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at Rollins College (February 2014)
• An Interview With Justin Cronin on KRUI's The Lit Show