Weeks was born in Whitefish, Montana on. 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.
Writing
Weeks has published two complete series, The Night Angel Trilogy and The Lightbringer Series. All eight novels are published by Orbit Books, a division of Hachette Book Group. His writing has been heavily influenced by the Classics, Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, and JRR Tolkien. The entire Night Angel Trilogy,--The Way of Shadows, Shadow's Edge, and Beyond the Shadows--was published as mass market paperback volumes in October 2008. Since its debut, the trilogy has been printed in more than 14 languages, and has more than one million copies in print. The Way of Shadows was also published as a graphic novel by Yen Press, adapted by Andrew McDonald and Ivan Brandon. Orbit Books published a hardcover 10th Anniversary Edition of the trilogy in November 2018. Perfect Shadow, a novella set in the Night Angel universe, was published by Subterranean Press as a lettered & numbered hardcover edition in 2011, and is currently available from Orbit as an ebook. There are more than 4 million copies of his books in print. The first novel in his Lightbringer Series, The Black Prism, was released in 2010. The series was originally intended to be a trilogy, but his publishers announced in 2012 that it would span four books, the third of which, The Broken Eye, was released in August 2014. On May 11, 2016, Brent Weeks announced via email newsletter and his website that Lightbringer #4, The Blood Mirror, would be published on October 25/27 of 2016. He also announced that "There will be five books in the Lightbringer Series, not four..." Weeks did not, however, indicate a release date. The fifth and final book in the Lightbringer Series, , was published on October 22, 2019. Weeks wrote a longform essay for the promotional tour of the book, titled, "." Each book in the Lightbringer Series appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with The Burning White reaching #4 on the Combined Print & E-book list. The Black Prism was recently listed among the . Weeks is represented by the .
