Rebecca Yarros
The American author of the Empyrean series that begins with Fourth Wing.
Rebecca Yarros is an American author, born April 13, 1981, best known for the Empyrean fantasy series. She studied European history and English at Troy University.
Quick Facts
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Notable works
- Fourth Wing
- Iron Flame
- Onyx Storm
- Education
- Troy University
- Born
- 13 April 1981
- Birthplace
- Washington D.C., U.S.
- Children
- 6
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Background
Fourth Wing, the first Empyrean book, came out from Red Tower Books in 2023, became a number one Amazon bestseller and spent 65 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list by August 2024. Iron Flame followed in November 2023 and Onyx Storm in January 2025, selling more than 2.7 million copies in its first week, and she has said the series will run to five books. Amazon MGM Studios and Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society bought the television rights in 2023, with Yarros as a non-writing executive producer. She began writing while her husband was deployed in Afghanistan, and she lives with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
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