Aleron Kong

A physician by training, Aleron Kong graduated from Morehouse College and Morehouse School of Medicine before completing an internal medicine residency. Encouraged by a friend to pick writing back up after years away from it during medical training, he wrote The Land: Founding, the first book in his Chaos Seeds series, drawing on the small pool of early LitRPG novels he'd found as inspiration at the time.

Founding reached #1 on Audible after its release, and the wider series has gone on to sell over a million copies and gather more than 100,000 five-star reviews. As one of the first American authors to write in the LitRPG genre, Kong became known within the community as its "Father of American LitRPG" — a nickname that stuck after coming up in a podcast interview — and he later founded a Facebook group that helped organize the genre's growing fanbase online.