Blake Crouch

Blake Crouch (born William Blake Crouch, October 15, 1978, in Statesville, North Carolina) is an American novelist and screenwriter. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he writes primarily thriller and science-fiction novels.

He is best known for the Wayward Pines trilogy, adapted into a 2015 television series for Fox executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, and for the bestselling novels Dark Matter (2016), Recursion (2019) — winner of the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction — and Upgrade (2022).

Dark Matter was adapted into a television series for Apple TV+ in 2024. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created the TNT series Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He lives in Colorado.