Brandon Sanderson

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Brandon Sanderson

Sanderson at CONduit 17.
Born December 19, 1975 (1975-12-19) (age 33)
Nebraska
Occupation writer, creative literature instructor
Nationality USA
Genres Fantasy
Official website

Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native,[1][2] he currently resides in Provo, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University.[3] He has been nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award.[4]

Sanderson married on July 7, 2006[5] and is a member of the LDS church.[2]

After Robert Jordan's death, Brandon Sanderson was selected by Harriet McDougal (Robert Jordan's widow), to complete the final book in the epic fantasy series "The Wheel of Time". Harriet asked him to complete the series after being deeply impressed by Mistborn: The Final Empire.[6] Tor Books made the announcement December 7, 2007.[7] On March 30, 2009 it was announced that A Memory of Light, originally slated to be the final book in the Wheel Of Time series, will be split into three volumes. The first, The Gathering Storm, will be released in November 2009, with the remaining novels, Shifting Winds and Tarmon Gai'don, following in November 2010 and November 2011. [8]

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Stand-alone novels

  • Elantris (2005)
  • Warbreaker (2009, ISBN 978-0-7653-20308) - Warbreaker was published in hardcover format in June of 2009 by TOR. Sanderson released several rewrites of this title under a Creative Commons license, one chapter at a time[9] Older drafts of the various chapters are also available.

[edit] Alcatraz

[edit] Mistborn

[edit] The Wheel of Time

  • The Gathering Storm (2009)
  • Book two of A Memory of Light (working title: Shifting Winds[10], forthcoming 2010)
  • Book three of A Memory of Light (untitled, forthcoming 2011)

[edit] The Stormlight Archive

  • The Way of Kings (2010)


The initial news of Sanderson's deal with Tor Books mentioned another book entitled Way of Kings, which is scheduled for release in 2010.[1] Sanderson has stated that he intends Way of Kings to be the first of a ten-book epic fantasy series that will be titled "The Stormlight Archive". The current contract for Way of Kings covers the first five books.

Sanderson has said on a recent blog post[10] that he has a new contract for Way of Kings, and has recently finished a re-write. This draft is about 380,000 words long, but Sanderson expects the final draft to be shorter.[11]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Profile for Brandon Sanderson". Writertopia. http://www.writertopia.com/profiles/BrandonSanderson. Retrieved on 2006-08-10. 
  2. ^ a b "Famous Mormon Writers and Authors". http://web.archive.org/web/20060815004428/http://morgannews.us/auth.html. Retrieved on 2006-08-10. 
  3. ^ "Winter 2006 Alumni Profiles Update". BYU Magazine. http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=1794. Retrieved on 2007-01-17. 
  4. ^ Wenger, Kaimi (2007-06-11). "MWS: Brandon Sanderson". Times & Seasons. http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3897. Retrieved on 2007-12-20. 
  5. ^ "Newsletter, July 2006". http://www.brandonsanderson.com/article.php?id=35. Retrieved on 2006-08-10. 
  6. ^ Dragonmount | An interview with Brandon Sanderson - December 8, 2007
  7. ^ "Tor announces that the final novel in bestselling Robert Jordan's legendary Wheel of Time fantasy series will be completed by author Brandon Sanderson". Tor-Forge.com. 2007-12-07. http://www.tor-forge.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=647. Retrieved on 2007-12-10. 
  8. ^ "Brandon Sanders: Splitting AMOL date". http://www.brandonsanderson.com/article/56/Splitting-AMOL. Retrieved on 2009-06-22. 
  9. ^ "Warbreaker". BrandonSanderson.com. http://www.brandonsanderson.com/page.php?id=20. Retrieved on 2006-08-10. 
  10. ^ a b "Another Long-Winded Explanation of Various Things". BrandonSanderson.com. http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/784/Another-Long-Winded-Explanation-of-Various-Things. Retrieved on 2009-05-09. 
  11. ^ http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/803/DONE

[edit] External links

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