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Brent Weeks

Author of The Way of Shadows

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New York Time bestselling author Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. He graduated from Hillsdale College and is the author of the Lightbringer series and the Night Angel series. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Way of Shadows
The Way of Shadows 4,776 copies, 141 reviews
Shadow's Edge 3,224 copies, 78 reviews
The Black Prism 3,151 copies, 96 reviews
Beyond the Shadows 3,035 copies, 67 reviews
The Blinding Knife 1,470 copies, 46 reviews
The Broken Eye 1,078 copies, 28 reviews
Night Angel Trilogy (3-in-1) 884 copies, 23 reviews
The Blood Mirror 791 copies, 26 reviews
The Burning White 523 copies, 21 reviews
Perfect Shadow 403 copies, 14 reviews
Gunner's Apprentice 41 copies, 3 reviews
I, Night Angel 23 copies
Za stíny 1 copy
Epic: Legends of Fantasy (Foreword) 177 copies, 3 reviews
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Brent Weeks (born March 7, 1977) is an American fantasy writer. His debut novel, The Way of Shadows, hit The New York Times Best Seller list in April 2009. Each of the five books in his Lightbringer Series made the NYT list as well, starting with The Black Prism in 2010. He lives and works near Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kristi, and their two daughters.

Weeks was born in Whitefish, Montana on March 7, 1977. He attended Whitefish High School, and graduated from Hillsdale College in 2000 with a degree in English. He has said that he decided to try writing novels during a semester abroad at Oxford College, an experience that was influential to him personally and professionally. He briefly worked as a teacher at Salem Academy in Oregon and as a bartender before moving to writing full-time.
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