William Blake Crouch (born October 15, 1978) is an American author known for books such as Dark Matter, Recursion, Upgrade, and his Wayward Pines Trilogy, which was adapted into a television series in 2015.

Crouch published his first two novels, Desert Places and Locked Doors, in 2004 and 2005, respectively.

[3] Another work, Good Behavior, premiered as a television series in November 2016.

[4] In 2019, Crouch released another sci-fi novel, titled Recursion, to critical success.

[5] In 2020, Crouch began working on a screenplay to adapt Dark Matter into a television series for Sony Pictures,[6] which was released on May 8, 2024, on Apple TV+.