Erin Morgenstern
The author's website.
Erin Morgenstern's Magician Death Match
A New York Times review of the novel.
Romance And Magic Dazzle In Dreamy 'Night Circus'
https://www.npr.org/2011/09/12/140320486/romance-and-magic-dazzle-in-dreamy-night-circus
An NPR review of the novel.