[1][failed verification] Each of the five books in his Lightbringer series made the NYT list as well, starting with The Black Prism in 2010.

His writing has been heavily influenced by the Classics (including The Odyssey[4] and Dante's Inferno[5]), Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, and J. R. R.

[10] Perfect Shadow, a novella set in the Night Angel universe, was published by Subterranean Press as a lettered & numbered hardcover edition in 2011, and is currently available from Orbit as an ebook.

[11] The series was originally intended to be a trilogy, but after sending the completed manuscript for The Black Prism, Brent Weeks sent an email to his editor saying it would be more than three books.

On May 11, 2016, Brent Weeks announced via email newsletter and his website that the fourth installment in the Lightbringer series, The Blood Mirror, would be published on October 25/27 of 2016 (US/UK release dates, respectively).