Adam Silvera is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End , The First to Die at the End , More Happy Than Not , History Is All You Left Me , Infinity Son, Infinity Reaper, and—with Becky Albertalli— What If It's Us and Here's to Us . All his novels have received multiple starred reviews. He worked in the publishing industry as a children's bookseller, community manager at a content development company, and book reviewer of children's and young adult novels. He was born and raised in New York. He lives in Los Angeles and is tall for no reason.