Patrick Rothfuss

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.