

Since its debut, the trilogy has been printed in more than 14 languages, and has more than one million copies in print.

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. His writing has been heavily influenced by the Classics (including The Odyssey and Dante's Inferno ), Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, and J. All eight novels are published by Orbit Books, a division of Hachette Book Group. Weeks has published two complete series, The Night Angel Trilogy and The Lightbringer Series. He briefly worked as a teacher at Salem Academy in Oregon and as a bartender before moving to writing full-time. 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 attended Whitefish High School, and graduated from Hillsdale College in 2000 with a degree in English. Weeks was born in Whitefish, Montana on ( )March 7, 1977. He lives and works near Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kristi, and their two daughters. Each of the five books in his Lightbringer Series made the NYT list as well, starting with The Black Prism in 2010. His debut novel, The Way of Shadows, was a New York Times best seller in April 2009. Brent Weeks (born March 7, 1977) is an American fantasy writer.
