Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown is an American science fiction author, born 28 January 1988 in Denver, Colorado. He moved frequently as a child, studied political science and economics at Pepperdine University, and worked as an NBC page, at a social media startup and as an aide on a US Senate campaign before his first novel was published.

Red Rising (2014) opened the Red Rising saga, continued in Golden Son (2015), Morning Star (2016), Iron Gold (2018), Dark Age (2019) and Light Bringer (2023), with a seventh book, Red God, forthcoming. The series has been a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into more than thirty languages.

With Rik Hoskin he co-writes the prequel comic series Red Rising: Sons of Ares, and he wrote the short story "Desert Son" for the Star Wars anthology From a Certain Point of View (2017).