The Fifth Wave-About the Author

"The 5th Wave"(about the author)

Rick Yancey is an American author who has been known for his outstanding works of suspense, fantasy, and science fiction aimed at young adults.

Yancey's first professional book "Burning in Homeland" was published 2004.

By 2010, Yancey had completed the first book in The Monstrumologist series. The tetralogy tells the tale of a 19th-century doctor and his young apprentice, who race around the world chasing—and being chased by—monsters. This highly acclaimed series, published by Simon and Schuster Children’s Books in the U.S. and the U.K, and in eight foreign language editions, comprised four books: The Monstrumologist (2009), The Curse of Wedigo(2010), The Isle of Blood (2011), and The Final Descent(2013).

In 2013, Yancey’s next trilogy kicked off with The 5th Wave, published in more than thirty additional languages around the world. The book, an immediate New York Times Best Seller, follows 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion. The invasion has already demolished the population and pushed civilisation back to the Stone Age. As one of Earth's last survivors, Cassie is left to fend for herself and overcome multiple obstacles to save her brother, Sammy, with the help of a beguiling young man who may not be exactly who he seems.

Soon, on the 14th of January 2016, his famous novel "The Fifth Wave", will be adapted into a movie.