

This story takes place following a fictional disease that is known to the people as IAAN. This series follows a 16 year old girl named Ruby who has special abilities that she is trying to navigate. It was first published in the United States in 2012, and it was immediately a very popular series. The Darkest Minds book series was written by Alexandra Bracken. She then graduated from Chaparral High School in 2005 and she attended The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.īefore she became an author, she worked in the children’s publishing industry in New York City. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona where she returned after she had spent some time in New York City. These rights were for the first novel in the series The Darkest Minds.Īlexandra Bracken, who was born in February 1987, is also known for the Passenger series. In 2011, Twentieth Century Fox bought the film rights for the series, and this was then adapted into a feature film in 2018.

This series was initially published in 2012, and the first novel of the series spent an impressive 8 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list for a children’s series, reaching number three at one stage.
