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Nick Brooks biography

Nick Brooks is an American author and filmmaker from Washington, DC. He writes middle grade science fiction and young adult mysteries, and also works in short film and music under the stage name Ben Kenobe.

Brooks’s middle grade series centres on inventor Ethan Fairmont. It begins with Nothing Interesting Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont (2022) and continues with Too Many Interesting Things Are Happening to Ethan Fairmont (2023) and Everything Interesting Keeps Happening to Ethan Fairmont (2024).

His young adult debut, Promise Boys (Henry Holt and Co. – BYR, 31 January 2023), follows three students who investigate their principal’s murder to clear their names. A second YA novel, Up in Smoke, was published in 2025.

Promise Boys was a 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award honouree and won the 2024 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production for Young Adults.