Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie was born in 1974 in Lancaster (United Kingdom). He studied psychology at the University of Manchester. He was engaged in television production and editing. Between various part-time jobs during 2002, he began writing The Guilt of the Blade. He finished the manuscript in 2004, and he found a publisher for his first novel only in 2006. Thus began his literary career. The First Law trilogy has been translated into thirty languages.