Tor Books made the announcement December 7, 2007. Harriet asked him to complete the series after being deeply impressed by The Final Empire. Sanderson was married on Jand is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Īfter Robert Jordan's death, Brandon Sanderson was selected by Harriet McDougal (Robert Jordan's widow), to complete the final book in Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. He has been nominated twice for the John W. He was a college roommate of Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine published by the university.

A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. Learn more about The Wheel of Time TV show here.Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American fantasy author. Sony Television and Amazon Prime produced an Amazon Original series based on the books. Each book the series has appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, and each one since the eighth ( The Path of Daggers) debuted at #1. It is published in the United Kingdom by Orbit Books. The first book in the series, The Eye of the World was published in 1990 by Tor Books and has been in continuous print ever since. Robert Jordan left behind an abundance of notes and audio recordings, which allowed his family and Brandon to tie up the series in a way that very closely matches his original vision. Robert Jordan passed away from a rare blood disease, amyloidosis, in 2007, before The Wheel of Time series was complete.Īs a result, the final 3 books in the series, (Books 12-14) were completed by fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, who was selected for the job by Harriet McDougal, Robert Jordan's wife and editor, after he passed away. A prequel novel, New Spring, was also published, along with other supplementary material.

The complete book series consists of 14 main-sequence novels, all of which continue the same story, weaving towards an ultimate climax.

Thus began his journey of writing what would become, The Wheel of Time, written under the pen name Robert Jordan. One of the greatest fantasy sagas of our time began in 1984 when the writer James Oliver Rigney asked himself, 'What would it be like to be tapped on the shoulder and told you were going to save the world, but also destroy it?'

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