Pierce Brown

About

Pierce Brown (born January 28, 1988) is an American science fiction author who writes the Red Rising series, consisting of Red Rising (2014), Golden Son (2015), Morning Star (2016), Iron Gold (2018), Dark Age (2019), and Light Bringer (2023). He also has written a six-issue prequel comic book series, Red Rising: Sons of Ares, that was published in 2015.

Pierce Brown grew up in seven different states. His mother, Colleen Birdnow Brown, was the president and CEO of Fisher Communications and the chairman of American Apparel’s Board of Directors. His father, Guy Brown, is a former local banker.
Brown graduated from Pepperdine University, where he majored in political science and economics. After graduation, he worked a variety of jobs in politics and startup tech companies. Brown was working for the NBC Page Program in Burbank, California and living in his former political science professor’s garage when he published Red Rising in 2014.

Brown wrote six novels and faced rejection from over 110 agents before publishing Red Rising. He wrote the novel in two months above his parents’ garage in Seattle, Washington.
Red Rising, published in 2014, received widespread…