| Terry Goodkind was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also attended art school, one of his many interests on the way to becoming a writer. Besides a career in wildlife art, he has been a cabinet maker, violin maker, and he has done restoration work on rare and exotic artifacts from around the world -- each with its own story to tell, he says. In 1983 Goodkind moved to the forested mountains he loves. There, in the woods near the ocean, he built the house where he and his wife, Jeri, live, and came at last to tell his own stories.
For the past ten years, master storyteller Terry Goodkind has enthralled millions of readers with his groundbreaking novels. A writer whose last five books have hit at the top of the country's bestsellers lists, including The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal, Terry Goodkind is one of today's premier authors.
Goodkind's stellar popularity stems from his extraordinary talent for writing fast-paced novels that reach out not only to adventure readers, but also to people intrigued by the exploration of the human spirit. Strictly embargoed, each of Terry Goodkind's novels creates strong pre-publication buzz. With no early review copies, critics and readers alike must wait with bated breath to learn what's behind each of his huge bestsellers.
Writing has not always been easy for Goodkind, however. He struggled through his primary and secondary school years with undiagnosed dyslexia, enduring frequent scolding and shaming for his hard to explain difficulties with the printed word. Meanwhile, he found solace in devouring adventure tales in secret and in drawing or painting (already a skillful enough artist to sell some of his work). Finally, in his senior year of high school, his English teacher was able to look beyond the mechanical errors in his writing to see the underlying creative imagination within his stories. She urged Goodkind to continue writing and referred him to the work of other writers with whose work he could connect.
After high school (and after dropping out of college), Goodkind stopped writing down his stories, but he continued to channel the passion of his narratives into drawing and painting. In 1983, he and wife Jeri moved from his native Nebraska to the woods of Maine. There he built his own house and settled down to work as a carpenter, making cabinets and violins and restoring rare artifacts. But he also began jotting down notes about the characters in his head. Finally, at the age of 45, his high school dream of being a novelist was realized as the notes eventually gave way to a completed manuscript. With the publishing of Wizard's First Rule, Goodkind's Sword of Truth series was begun. Additional volumes to the series include Stone of Tears, Blood of the Fold, Temple of the Winds, and many others.
Terry Goodkind’s first novel, Wizard’s First Rule immediately established him as one of the world’s bestselling authors. Each subsequent book in the Sword of Truth series sold better than the one before and some twenty million copies of books in the series have now been sold.
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