Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence is the British-American author of the Book of the Ancestor trilogy.

Biography
Mark Lawrence was born in Illinois, USA to British parents, but moved to the UK at the age of one. He achieved a degree in physics and a PhD in mathematics from Imperial College, and went back to the USA to work on a variety of research projects, including the "Star Wars" missile defence programme. He now live in Bristol, UK, and is married, with four children.

He says he never had any ambition to be a writer, so was very surprised when his first trilogy, The Broken Empire, was universally acclaimed as a ground-breaking work of fantasy. The final book in the series, Emperor of Thorns, won the David Gemmell Legend Awards for best novel. This was followed by the bestselling Red Queen’s War trilogy. The Book Of The Ancestor trilogy, in an entirely new setting, commenced with Red Sister in 2017 and continued with Grey Sister in 2018.

Links
The official website of Mark Lawrence