Patrick Rothfuss is the bestselling author of The Kingkiller Chronicle. His first novel, The Name of the Wind, won the Quill Award and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Its sequel, The Wise Man's Fear, debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller chart and won the David Gemmell Legend Award. His novels have appeared on NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books list and Locus' Best 21st Century Fantasy Novels list. Pat lives in Wisconsin, where he brews mead, builds box forts with his children, and runs Worldbuilders, a book-centered charity that has raised more than six million dollars for Heifer International. He can be found at patrickrothfuss.com and on Twitter at @patrickrothfuss.
The best epic fantasy I read last year...He's bloody good, this
Rothfuss guy -- George R R Martin
Patrick Rothfuss' debut is set in an unnamed but fully realised
fantasy world, and his characters are detailed and convincing. *
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Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep
and intricate and wondrous -- Terry Brooks
This is a magnificent book -- Anne McCaffrey
The Name of the Wind has everything: magic and mysteries and
ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely
believable -- Tad Williams
As absorbing on a second reading as it is on the first, this is the
type of assured, rich first novel most writers can only dream of
producing * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
It is a rare and great pleasure to find a fantasist writing ...
with true music in the words -- Ursula K Le Guin
The characters are real and the magic is true -- robin Hobb, New
York Times-bestselling author of Assassin's Apprentice
Masterful ... There is a beauty to Pat's writing that defies
description -- Brandon Sanderson, New York Times-bestselling author
of Mistborn
[Makes] you think he's inventing the genre, instead of reinventing
it -- Lev Grossman, New York Times-bestselling author of The
Magicians
Hail Patrick Rothfuss! A new giant is striding the land -- Robert
J. Sawyer, award-winning author of Wake
I was reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and J. R.
R. Tolkein, but never felt that Rothfuss was imitating anyone * THE
TIMES *
This fast-moving, vivid, and unpretentious debut roots its
coming-of-age fantasy in convincing mythology * ENTERTAINMENT
WEEKLY *
This breathtakingly epic story is heartrending in its intimacy and
masterful in its narrative essence * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred
review *
Reminiscent in scope of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series ...
this masterpiece of storytelling will appeal to lovers of fantasy
on a grand scale * LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred) *
Shelve The Name of the Wind beside The Lord of the
Rings...and look forward to the day when it's mentioned in the
same breath, perhaps as first among equals * The A.V. Club *
"Patrick Rothfuss' debut is set in an unnamed but fully realised
fantasy world, and his characters are detailed and convincing." *
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