R. F. Kuang

Rebecca F. Kuang (born May 29, 1996) is an award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Chinese-American author known for her sweeping historical fantasy trilogies, dark academia blockbusters, and sharp contemporary satire. Alongside her incredibly prolific writing career, she is an academic who holds degrees from Cambridge and Oxford, and is currently pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.