Blake Crouch

William Blake Crouch (born October 15, 1978) is an American author known for books such as Dark Matter, Recursion, Upgrade, and his Wayward Pines Trilogy, which was adapted into a television series in 2015. Dark Matter was adapted for television in 2024.

Early life and education Crouch was born near the town of Statesville, North Carolina. He attended North Iredell High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 2000 with degrees in English and creative writing. He began writing short stories and early drafts of his novels while still in middle school.

Career

Writing Crouch published his first two novels, Desert Places and Locked Doors, in 2004 and 2005, respectively. In 2011, he self-published the novel Run digitally. In 2016, he released the sci-fi novel Dark Matter. In 2019, he published another sci-fi novel, titled Recursion.

Adaptations Crouch's Wayward Pines Trilogy (2012–14) was adapted into the 2015 television series Wayward Pines. Another work, Good Behavior, premiered as a television series in November 2016.

In 2020, Crouch began working on a screenplay to adapt Dark Matter into a television series for Sony Pictures, serving as writer, producer, and showrunner.

Personal life

Crouch married Rebecca Greene on June 20, 1998. They have three children together. The couple divorced in 2017. As of 2019, Crouch was dating Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry.

In 2021, Crouch filed a court case appealing to modify his and Greene's joint agreement for medical decision-making authority for their children, to allow him to vaccinate them over Greene's religious objection to childhood vaccination.

Awards and recognition Pines – nominated for the International Thriller Writers Awards "Best Original Paperback Novel" in 2013 The Last Town – nominated for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Award in the "Horror" category Recursion (2019) Upgrade (2022)