After completing The Song of Flame and Thunder, Rothfuss submitted it to several publishing companies, but it was rejected. After receiving his MA at Washington State University, he returned two years later to teach at Stevens Point. He also began to write the 'College Survival Guide,' a column in The Pointer, the campus paper. During that time, while holding odd jobs, Rothfuss worked on an extremely long fantasy novel called The Song of Flame and Thunder. At university he originally planned to be a chemical engineer, changed his mind to pursue a career in clinical psychology, and finally set his major as 'Undeclared' after three years continuing to study any subject that caught his interest. He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1991. Patrick Rothfuss was born in Madison, Wisconsin and grew up as an avid reader in part due to inclement weather and a lack of cable television. He is the author of three-volume series The Kingkiller Chronicle which was rejected by several publishing companies before the first book of the series, The Name of the Wind, was published in 2007, going on to win critical acclaim and become a New York Times best seller. In 2016, the board game Tak was released, based on a fictional game in The Wise Man's Fear.Patrick Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American fantasy writer and college lecturer. The Kingkiller Chronicle book series has sold over 10 million copies around the world and there are big plans to adapt the work into a film, TV series and a video game. Rothfuss has won several awards for the series, including the 2007 Quill Award for the first book, The Name of the Wind. His big break came when an excerpt from the full prose won a Writers of the Future competition and the rest is literary history.

The original version took the form of a single novel entitled The Song of Flame and Thunder, however, it failed to gain traction with publishers. Martin, Orson Scott Card and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda who cites the books as a key inspiration for some of the songs that appear in Disney's Moana.Īuthor Patrick Rothfuss was inspired to write his groundbreaking work while studying a bachelor's degree in English. He plays the role with aplomb, with an effortless yet immersive style that draws you into the narrative and the various realms and adversaries encountered by our protagonist.įans of the series include George R.

Taking on the monumental task of portraying Kvothe in the audiobooks is voice artist Nick Podehl. In a series of semi-autobiographical tales that offers a unique take on fantasy literature, our hero encounters sorrow, survival and a search for his purpose in the universe. Kvothe is an adventurer, a musician and a magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.

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