# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brent-weeks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:27:41.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brent-weeks"
name: "Brent Weeks"
slug: "brent-weeks"
description: "Brent Weeks is an American fantasy writer. His debut novel, The Way of Shadows, was a New York Times best seller 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."
tagline: "American fiction writer"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1977-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump