Justine Musk
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Jennifer Justine Musk (Template:Née Wilson; born September 2, 1972) is a Canadian author. She is the first ex-wife of businessman Elon Musk.
Early life and education
Jennifer "Justine" Wilson was born on September 2, 1972,[1][2][3] in Peterborough, Ontario, to parents Terry and Shirley Wilson. Justine was the oldest of two children, her younger sister, Erin, eventually left Peterborough to live in LA with Justine. Justine always had a keen interest in literature and a passion for writing, she was interested in becoming a writer from a very early age and would never be far from a book. Justine was able to spend her senior high school year in Wagga Wagga, Australia, as an exchange student. She returned to Peterborough in 1990 and joined the Peterborough Taekwondo School, eventually attaining a first degree black belt. She went on to attend Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and obtained a degree in English literature, it was there she met Elon Musk.
Career
After university, Wilson moved to Japan, teaching English as a second language (ESL). She subsequently settled in California.[4]
Wilson is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel BloodAngel,[5] published in 2005 by the Roc Books imprint of Penguin Books. Her second book, Uninvited, was released in 2007 and is an unrelated work intended for young-adult readers. A sequel to BloodAngel, Lord of Bones, was released in 2008.[6] Wilson was one of the first people to use a site like Pinterest to plan out a novel.[7]
In a 2007 interview, she identified Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux, George R.R. Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Neil Gaiman as authors to whom she could relate her writings.[8] She also described her books as cross-genre fiction.
Personal life
Following a protracted courtship starting in or about 1992, in January 2000, Wilson married Elon Musk. Their first child was born in 2002 and died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at the age of 10 weeks.[4][9] Through in vitro fertilization, she gave birth to twins in 2004 and triplet boys in 2006.[10] On September 13, 2008, she announced that she and Musk were getting a divorce.[11] She and Musk shared custody of their children.[4]
Wilson later wrote an article for Marie Claire detailing ways she thought the marriage was unhealthy, such as Musk's dismissal of her career ambitions, his description of himself as the "alpha" in the relationship, and his pressure for her to become a trophy wife.[4][12] In 2010, she described herself as a "model former wife", and said she was on good terms with Musk's then-wife, Talulah Riley.[13][14]
She has said that she kept the last name Musk for their children's sake.[15] In 2022, one of their twins officially changed her name to Vivian to reflect her gender identity and took Wilson as her surname because she no longer wished to be associated with her father.[16][17][18]
Bibliography
| Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | BloodAngel | Roc imprint, Penguin Books | Template:ISBN | |
| 2007 | Uninvited | Paw Prints | Template:ISBN | |
| 2008 | Lord of Bones | Roc imprint, Penguin Books | Template:ISBN | Sequel to BloodAngel |
| 2009 | "I need more you", in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2 |
Running Press | Template:ISBN | Short story in a collection of short stories |
| 2010 | "Lost", in Kiss Me Deadly : 13 Tales of Paranormal Love |
Running Press | Template:ISBN | Short story in a collection of short stories |
| 2016 | "Smalltown Canadian girl", in The House that Made Me: Writers Reflect on the Places and People that Defined Them |
Sparkpress | Template:ISBN | Short story in a collection of short stories |
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External links
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- Template:Trim Justine Musk at the Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseTemplate:EditAtWikidata
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian expatriate writers in the United States
- Canadian fantasy writers
- Canadian women novelists
- Chick lit writers
- People from Peterborough, Ontario
- People from Bel Air, Los Angeles
- Canadian women science fiction and fantasy writers
- Musk family
- Queen's University at Kingston alumni
- Novelists from Ontario