Brent Weeks

Brent Weeks (born 1977 in Whitefish, Montana) is an American fantasy novelist. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2000 and made his debut with the Night Angel trilogy — The Way of Shadows, Shadow's Edge and Beyond the Shadows — all three published in 2008, later extended by the novella Perfect Shadow (2011) and by Night Angel Nemesis (2023). His five-volume Lightbringer series runs from The Black Prism (2010) to The Burning White (2019); its second book, The Blinding Knife, won the David Gemmell Legend Award in 2013. He is published by Orbit.