is an American fiction author. Though his second novel, Only Revolutions (2006), was nominated for the National Book Award,[3] Danielewski is most widely known for his debut novel House of Leaves (2000), which garnered a considerable cult following and won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.[4][5] He has published one novella, The Fifty Year Sword, which until rereleased by Pantheon in the United States in 2012