Brent Weeks studied at Hillsdale College, before brief stints walking the earth like Caine from Kung Fu, also tending bar and corrupting the youth (not at the same time). He started writing on napkins and, eventually, someone paid him for it. Brent doesn't own cats or wear a ponytail.
Brent Weeks is so good it's beginning to tick me off One of the best examples of modern fantasy that I have read Places Brent Weeks on comfortable footing beside contemporaries like Brandon Sanderson and Joe Abercrombie, if not a step above Weeks has truly cemented his place among the great epic fantasy writers of our time - British Fantasy Society