Brent Weeks

New York Times bestselling author of millions. Creator of Night Angel Trilogy and Lightbringer series. Montana native crafting intricate magic systems and morally gray fantasy. Award winner blending high-stakes action with emotional depth.

In a small-town Montana school at age 12, Brent Weeks met the two great loves of his life. Edgar Allan Poe introduced him to speculative fiction and the power of literature to transcend time and death and loneliness. Fate introduced him to The Girl, Kristi Barnes. He began his pursuit of each immediately. The novel was a failure. The Girl shot him down. Born and raised in Montana, after getting his paper keys from Hillsdale College, Brent had brief stints walking the earth like Caine from Kung Fu, tending bar, and corrupting the youth.

Skipping the boring parts, since then, Brent has written eight best-selling novels with the Night Angel Trilogy and the Lightbringer Series, won several awards, and sold a few million books. Brent and his wife Kristi live in Oregon with their two daughters. (Yeah, he married The Girl.) His debut novel, The Way of Shadows, launched the Night Angel Trilogy in 2008, establishing Weeks as a distinctive voice in epic fantasy known for fast-paced, emotionally charged storytelling that tackles the gray areas of morality and power.

The first novel in his Lightbringer series, The Black Prism, was released in 2010. The series was originally intended to be a trilogy, but after sending the completed manuscript for The Black Prism, Brent Weeks sent an email to his editor saying it would be more than three books. The series ultimately spanned five books, concluding with The Burning White in 2019. His intricate magic systems - particularly Lightbringer's chromaturgy, where drafters manipulate different colors of light with unique properties - showcase his ingenuity in worldbuilding.

Weeks has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards and David Gemmell Legend Award, and won the Reddit Stabby Award. His fans, affectionately known as "Weeks' Warriors," appreciate his engaging online presence and candid humor. In 2023, Weeks returned to the Night Angel universe with Night Angel Nemesis, launching the new Kylar Chronicles series. What sets Weeks apart is his ability to balance high-stakes action with introspective character development, creating vast worlds always grounded in the human experience. His novels explore themes of redemption, sacrifice, and the belief that even when we think we're broken, we can find the strength to rebuild.

Known for saying death is the only thing that will stop him from writing, Weeks continues crafting timeless fantasy novels from Oregon, where he doesn't own cats or wear a ponytail - facts he frequently mentions with characteristic humor.