Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski is an American fiction author best known for House of Leaves (2000), his debut novel, which won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His second novel, Only Revolutions (2006), was nominated for the National Book Award. He began a 27-volume series, The Familiar, and finished five volumes before halting the project in 2017. Danielewski's pages are known for a typographic layout he calls signiconic, which ties the look of the text to the physical space of the story.