Scott Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.Spending his early career as a composer whose musical compositions have been performed in dance productions both in the United States and in Europe, Scott Westerfeld moved into writing as a ghostwriter and creator of educational software programs for children. Now, as a fiction writer working primarily in the science-fiction genre, he pens novels and short stories for both adults and younger readers. .Westerfeld reshapes his sci-fi for a younger readership in several trilogies, including "Midnighters" and "Uglies." "Midnighters" takes readers into a parallel world where hidden dangers lurk for a group of Midwestern teens, while in the "Uglies" books he creates a near-future world where cosmetic surgery is a required process for everyone at age sixteen. Uglies follows soon-to-be sixteen Tally as she discovers that there are options to the government-sponsored surgery sceduled to make her beautiful and a future life in New Pretty Town. At an outpost that is home to a group of renegades called the Smoke, she learns that a world in which everyone is equally beautiful has a terrifying down side. Praising Uglies, the first novel in the trilogy, Kliatt reviewer Samantha Musher wrote that in the work Westerfeld "asks engaging questions about the meaning of beauty, individuality, and betrayal."
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