For the next fourteen years, he wrote more Landover books, then went on to write The Word and Void trilogy. Brooks then wrote a four-book series titled The Heritage of Shannara. Īfter finishing two sequels to The Sword of Shannara, Brooks moved on to the series which would become known as the Landover novels. With this inspiration, he then made his debut in 1977 with The Sword of Shannara. While Tolkien inspired the genre, Brooks stated during his TEDxRainier talk "Why I Write about Elves", as well as at the Charlotte Literary Festival that he credits the inspiration of his style of writing to William Faulkner's works. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which inspired him to write in one genre.
One day, in his early college life, he was given a copy of J. Career īrooks at a book signing at the 2017 Phoenix Comiconīrooks had been a writer since high school, writing mainly in the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction. He was a practising attorney before becoming a full-time author. degree from Washington and Lee University. He is an alumnus of Hamilton College, earning his B.A. Early life īrooks was born in the rural Midwestern town of Sterling, Illinois, and spent a large part of his life living there. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has sold over 25 million copies of his books in print. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two film novelizations. Urn:oclc:861848575 Republisher_date 20120316075535 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120315141309 Scanner Dean Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:54:46 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA174201 Boxid_2 CH114901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
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