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Pierce Brown

Author of New York Times bestselling Red Rising series

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  • About Pierce Brown

    Pierce Brown is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, Iron Gold, and Dark Age. Brown’s work has been published in thirty-three languages and thirty-five territories.

    Brown lived in eight different states growing up and spent most of his childhood exploring new places and building forts and traps for his cousins in the woods. After college he worked a variety of jobs from manager of a social media startup to an NBC page and even put in time working as an aide on a US Senate campaign. Throughout his various occupations, Brown worked tirelessly on becoming a writer and finished his first draft of Red Rising when he was just 22 years old. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is at work on his next novel.

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    From Building Forts to Writing a Bestseller

    In this talk, Pierce Brown recalls his sleep-deprived life juggling various jobs as he worked toward becoming a writer—and, at age 26, he did. Attracted to the universal social themes of justice and class, Brown published a genre-defying epic trilogy that resonates with audiences of all ages.

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  • Praise for Pierce Brown

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    He was WONDERFUL! Everyone raved about how great his talk was. Our Library Store sold out of copies of Red Rising and only had a few of Golden Son left at the end of the day. I know we had some guests drive from 3 hours away just to see him.

    Spartanburg County Public Library

    Praise for From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

    The biggest joy of this collection is turning the page to a new story and realizing which character they’ll be jumping to next.

    New York Daily News

    An entertaining, multi-faceted way to revisit that galaxy far, far away.

    Financial Times

    The stories are humorous, heartbreaking, and downright wacky. If you have a favorite Star Wars character, forget them. You’re going to have forty new favorite characters after reading this.

    Comicsverse

    An impressive, and highly entertaining, short story compilation.

    Cinelinx

    Praise for Dark Age

    An epic story of rebellion, social unrest and sacrifice.

    Orlando Sentinel

    Dark Age proves that Brown has truly become a master.

    The Geekiary

    Much like A Song of Ice and Fire’s George R. R. Martin, Brown is an author who is interested in exploring the consequences of his protagonist’s actions. Revolution doesn’t come without a price and no one can stay a hero forever. . . . Dark Age continues the trend of compelling characters, fast plotting, action, and the feeling that no one is truly safe and no one is who you think they are.

    The Mary Sue

    Praise for Morning Star

    You could call [Pierce] Brown science fiction’s best-kept secret. In Morning Star, the trilogy’s devastating and inspiring final chapter, . . . he flirts with volume, oscillating between thundering space escapes and hushed, tense parleys between rivals, where the cinematic dialogue oozes such specificity and suspense you could almost hear a pin drop between pages. His achievement is in creating an uncomfortably familiar world of flaw, fear, and promise.

    Entertainment Weekly

    Excellent . . . Brown’s vivid, first-person prose puts the reader right at the forefront of impassioned speeches, broken families, and engaging battle scenes . . . as this interstellar civil war comes to a most satisfying conclusion.”

    Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    Morning Star is this trilogy’s Return of the Jedi. . . . The impactful battles that make up most of Morning Star are damn near operatic. . . . It absolutely satisfies.

    Tor.com

    [M]ultilayered and seething with characters who exist in a shadow world between history and myth, much as in Frank Herbert's Dune…An ambitious and satisfying conclusion to a monumental saga.

    Kirkus

    A page-turning epic filled with twists and turns, heartbreaks and daring gambles…The conclusion to Brown’s saga is simply stellar.

    Booklist (starred)

    Praise for Golden Son

    Gripping . . . Both author and lead character have cranked up the emotional stakes. . . . With Golden Son, [Pierce] Brown avoids the sophomore slump, charging the novel with the kind of dystopia-toppling action you’d expect in a trilogy ender, not a middle volume. On virtually every level, this is a sequel that hates sequels—a perfect fit for a hero who already defies the tropes. Grade: A

    Entertainment Weekly

    Brown writes layered, flawed characters . . . but plot is his most breathtaking strength. . . . Every action seems to flow into the next.

    NPR

    Dramatic . . . the rare middle book that loses almost no momentum as it sets up the final installment.

    Publisher's Weekly

    Praise for Red Rising

    A story of vengeance, warfare and the quest for power . . . reminiscent of The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones.

    Kirkus Reviews

    [A] top-notch debut novel . . . Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.

    USA Today

    Pierce Brown has done an astounding job at delivering a powerful piece of literature that will definitely make a mark in the minds of readers.

    The Huffington Post

    [A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.

    Entertainment Weekly
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