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Trenton Lee Stewart (born May 27, 1970) is an American
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best known for the Mysterious Benedict Society series. Stewart is a graduate of
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and the
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. He lives in
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.


Life and career

Trenton Lee Stewart was born on May 27, 1970, to Jerry and Sandi Stewart, and he grew up in
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. In 1992, Stewart received a bachelor's degree in English from
Hendrix College Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Approximately 1,000 students are enrolled, mostly undergraduates. While affiliated with the United Methodist Church, the college offers a secular curriculum and has a student ...
. Afterwards he attended the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, receiving his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in 1995. Stewart taught at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and, after moving to Cincinnati, at the Miami University of Ohio in 2005. After that he returned to Arkansas in 2006. Stewart's first novels were published during this time: ''Flood Summer'' in 2005 and '' The Mysterious Benedict Society'' in 2007, the latter remaining on
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for over a year. Two more books were completed in the series: '' The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey'' in 2008, and '' The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma'' in 2009, both of which appeared on
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. In 2012, a bestselling
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to the series, '' The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict'', was published, and 2016 saw the release of Stewart's ''The Secret Keepers,'' a stand-alone novel for young readers that was also a bestseller. Stewart was a Murphy Visiting Writer-in-Residence and taught a Writing Fiction course at Hendrix College in the spring of 2019. Stewart's latest novel, ''The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages,'' was published September 24, 2019.


Bibliography

* ''Flood Summer: A Novel'' (2005) * '' The Mysterious Benedict Society'' (2007) * '' The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey'' (2008) * '' The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma'' (2009) * ''The Mysterious Benedict Society: Mr. Benedict's Book of Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Enigmas, and Curious Conundrums'' (2011) * '' The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict'' (2012) * ''The Secret Keepers'' (2016) * ''The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages'' (2019) * ''Secret Keepers Zeit der Späher'' (2019)


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The Mysterious Benedict Society
at publisher
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