Brent Weeks
Brent Weeks
b. 07 March 1977 · From United States- Books
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Brent Weeks is an American fantasy writer, born on March 7, 1977 in Whitefish, Montana. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2000 with a degree in English, then worked as a teacher and a bartender before writing full time.
His debut, The Way of Shadows, opened the Night Angel trilogy in 2008 and reached the New York Times bestseller list in 2009. He followed it with the five-book Lightbringer series, beginning with The Black Prism in 2010, and returned to the Night Angel world with Night Angel Nemesis in 2023.
He lives in Oregon with his wife and their two daughters.
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The Lightbringer series should be read in the following order: The Black Prism, The Blinding Knife, The Broken Eye, The Blood Mirror, and The Burning White.
The Night Angel series begins with The Way of Shadows, followed by Shadow's Edge, and concludes with Beyond the Shadows.
Many readers recommend starting with The Night Angel trilogy for a darker, more focused story, or The Lightbringer series for a more expansive and complex epic fantasy experience.
Brent Weeks's novel The Blinding Knife won the David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2013.