Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of Red Rising and Golden Son. From Brown's Q & A with Catherine Elsworth for Goodreads:GR: In Red Rising society is divided into a hierarchy of color-coded castes, with Reds at the bottom and Golds at the top. How did this system come about? PB: The origin here is in Plato's Republic, where he says that in a perfect society men should form a