Patrick Rothfuss - Author
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Patrick Rothfuss describes himself as having had "the good fortune to be born in Wisconsin where long winters and lack of cable television brought about a love of reading and writing." After several years in college studying chemical engineering, clinical psychology, philosophy, medieval history, eastern theater, anthropology and sociology, Patrick finally completed a degree in English and decided to pursue writing. Patrick wrote poetry for a local literary series, a satirical advice column for the local paper, and scripts for a radio comedy show. In 2002 a piece of Patrick’s novel, cleverly disguised as a short story, won first place in the Writers of the Future contest. Patrick’s story, The Road to Levinshir, was published in Volume 18 of their anthology, and they flew him out to their writers workshop in LA. It was at that workshop that Pat met Kevin Anderson and his agent, Matt Bialer. Matt introduced Patrick in contact with his current, beloved editor, Betsy Wollheim, president of Daw Books, where Patrick would publish his novel The Name of the Wind. |
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