patrick rothfuss the kingkiller chronicles book 3

This is how Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind ( NW) first made its way into my hands: briefly, and only to be snatched away and swapped with another mainstay of contemporary fantasy writing-Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings. I tore off the wrapping paper from my book and behold: it was the wrong book. We were instructed to open them simultaneously (with the caveat that they might be mixed up, that I might be holding his, and vice versa). My brother and I were recipients of two such similarly-sized, book-shaped packages. My youngest sister took her turn doling out packages, many of them small, rectangular-the size of books.

It was Christmas Eve, the night my family and I traditionally exchange gifts. The novel subsequently won the 2007 Quill Award for best sci-fi/fantasy and was listed on the New York Times Best Seller list.This story begins with a book that was given, and then taken away. The Song of Flame and Thunder was split into a three-volume series entitled The Kingkiller Chronicle, with the first installment, The Name of the Wind, published in April 2007. Rothfuss subsequently sold the novel to DAW Books. In 2002 he won the Writers of the Future competition with The Road to Levinshir, an excerpt from his novel. 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.

Patrick Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American fantasy writer and college lecturer.

Patrick rothfuss the kingkiller chronicles book 3