Occupation Writer Genre Fantasy Name Patrick Rothfuss Spouse Sarah Rothfuss | Nationality American Signature Role Writer | |
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Born June 6, 1973 (age 50)
Madison, Wisconsin, USA ( 1973-06-06 ) Period 2007–present (published) Notable awards Quill Award (2007), David Gemmell Award (2012) Influenced by George R. R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien, Neil Gaiman Education Washington State University, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Awards The Reading List award for fantasy, Quill Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Books The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear, The Slow Regard of Silent Thi, The Adventures of the Pri, Your Annotated - Illustrated Similar People Brandon Sanderson, George R R Martin, Jim Butcher, Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman Profiles | ||
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Patrick James Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American writer of epic fantasy and college lecturer. He is best known for his projected three-volume series The Kingkiller Chronicle.
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Patrick rothfuss a writer of things talks at google
Biography
Patrick Rothfuss was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and received his B.S. in English from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1999 after spending nine years as an undergraduate exploring various majors such as Chemical Engineering, Clinical Psychology, and others. He contributed to The Pointer, the campus paper and produced a widely-circulated parody warning about the Goodtimes Virus.
He graduated in 1999, received an MA at Washington State University, and returned to teach at Stevens Point. In 2002, he won the Writers of the Future 2002 Second Quarter competition with "The Road to Levinshir", an excerpt from his then-unpublished novel The Wise Man's Fear. Rothfuss subsequently sold the novel to DAW Books.
In August 2012, Rothfuss began a monthly podcast called The Story Board on fantasy, featuring authors such as Terry Brooks and Brandon Sanderson. The Story Board ran for 8 episodes.
Mr. Rothfuss has two sons whose names he does not use on the internet for their privacy (on his blog he calls them "Oot" and "Cutie Snoo") and lives in a house he bought with his girlfriend, Sarah.
Rothfuss organizes the charity Worldbuilders, which, since 2008, has raised over $2 million for Heifer International, a charity which provides livestock, clean water, education and training for communities in the developing world.
Writing
Rothfuss' first novel, The Name of the Wind, was published in 2007. It won a Quill Award (for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror) and was listed among Publishers Weekly's "Books of the Year". It also won an Alex Award in 2008.
The Wise Man's Fear was published in 2011 and reached Number 1 on the New York Times Hardback Fiction Best Seller List.
Works
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Awards and honors
- #1 The New York Times Best Seller
- Writers of the Future (2002 Second Quarter)
- Quill Award (2007)
- "Best Books of the Year" (2007) – Publishers Weekly – Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
- Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Epic Fantasy (2007)
- Gollancz 50 Top Ten SciFi/Fantasy (2011)
- NPR Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books (2011)
- "David Gemmell Legend Award" (2012)
- Ranked 3rd in "Best 21st Century Fantasy Fiction Novels" by Locus (2012)