Brent Weeks
| Brent Weeks | |
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| Born | March 7, 1977 Montana, USA |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Spouse | Kristi Weeks |
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Brent Weeks (born March 7, 1977) is an American fantasy writer. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with The Blinding Knife in its first month, September 2012.[1]
Early life
Weeks was born in Montana on March 7, 1977, and graduated from Hillsdale College with a degree in English. He briefly worked as a teacher and bartender before moving to writing full-time.[2]
Writing
Orbit Books published his first novel in 2008; The Way of Shadows is also the first book in Weeks' The Night Angel Trilogy,[3][4] which has been printed in 10 different languages; the Way of Shadows is also scheduled to be adapted into a graphic novel by Yen Press.[5]
The first book in his Lightbringer Series was released in 2010.[6] Originally intended to be a trilogy, his publishers announced in 2012 that it would span four books,[7] the third of which was released in August 2014.
Weeks lives and works in Oregon.
Works
- Night Angel series[8]
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- The Way of Shadows (2008)
- Shadow's Edge (2008)
- Beyond the Shadows (2008)
Graphic Novel:
- The Way of Shadows: The Graphic Novel (2014)[9]
Short fiction:
- Perfect Shadow (novella) (Orbit, June 2011), e-book; (Subterranean Press, December 2011), chapterbook[8][10]
- Lightbringer series
- The Black Prism (2010) Paperback: 768 pages Publisher: Orbit (September 1, 2011) ISBN 978-1841499048
- The Blinding Knife (September 11, 2012) 671 pages (Hardcover)[11]
- The Broken Eye (August 26, 2014) Hardcover: 816 pages
- The Blood Mirror (2016)
References
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External links
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- Brent Weeks at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Brent Weeks at Library of Congress Authorities, with 8 catalog records
