The author of Heroes was Sun Xiao. Sun Xiao was born in October 1985 in Beijing, Mainland China, and graduated from Peking University Law School. In 2008, he began writing novels. In 2012, his novel, Heroes, was published and quickly became one of the representative works of online literature in the mainland of China. Sun Xiao's literary works had a unique style, using history as the background to create a series of heroic characters full of personality, depicting the classic stories of Chinese myths and legends. Sun Xiao had won many literary awards, including the first prize of the 2013 Mengya magazine's New Concept Essay Competition and the 2014 Spring Silkworm Literature Award. In addition, he also served as a column for several literary websites and had rich writing experience and reader groups.