Blake Crouch

William Blake Crouch (born October 15, 1978) is an American author best known for his Wayward Pines Trilogy, which was adapted into a television series in 2015.

Crouch was born near the town of Statesville, North Carolina.

Crouch married Rebecca Greene on June 20, 1998.

They have three children together.

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.

Crouch published his first two novels, Desert Places and Locked Doors, in 2004 and 2005.

His stories have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Thriller 2, and other anthologies.

Crouch's Wayward Pines Trilogy (2012–14) was adapted into the 2015 television series Wayward Pines.

In 2016, he released the sci-fi novel Dark Matter.

Another work, Good Behavior, premiered as a television series in November 2016.

The couple divorced in 2017.

In 2019, Crouch released another sci-fi novel, titled Recursion, to critical success.

As of 2019, Crouch is dating Jacque 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-based objections.

In 2020, Crouch began working on a screenplay to adapt Dark Matter into a feature film for Sony Pictures.