Patrick Rothfuss Gets Critical Acclaim

November 24th, 2011 posted by admin

Easily one of the most unique and intriguing writers of this generation is Patrick Rothfuss. Don’t expect to find any Twilight love stories in his portfolio. His unique style of writing coupled with his unmatched sense of humour has helped to give rise to arguably the most mind enslaving pieces of work we have seen over the last decade. His uniqueness in his sense of writing style coupled with the manner in which his story lines are captivating has bought his work critical acclaim.

Walk into any store and you are sure to find his work shown on special Banner stands and displays. It is not likely to be too long before he begins to make millions of dollars from selling the rights to his book for the development of a big motion picture trilogy of his books that are bestsellers.

Rothfuss is an American bestselling writer who creates fantasy works and also does some guest lecturing at a number of the major U.S. universities.

He was born in 1973, on the 6th of in Madison, Wisconsin. At the University of Wisconsin he was very active at the school’s newspaper The Pointer - Stevens Point. From an early age he showed that he was a gifted fantasy writer with natural abilities and this displayed in every piece of literary works of art he did.

His career as a writer really took off when we penned The Kingkiller Chronicle which was critically acclaimed and which eventually ended up being a three-volume series.

Back in 2002 Rothfuss was the winner of the prestigious Writers of the Future award for his work The Road to Levinshir.

In 2007, he was the winner of the Quail Award and also Publishers Weekly’s “Best Books of the Year” award. He became a New York Times number one Best Seller for his trilogy. In March of 2011The Wise Man’s Fear which is the second book in the trilogy was released. The Doors of Stone is the trilogy’s final book and the release date is not yet set.

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