Terry Goodkind

Additionally, it was adapted into a television series called Legend of the Seeker which premiered on November 1, 2008, and ran for two seasons until May 2010. Goodkind was a proponent of Ayn Rand's philosophical approach of objectivism, and made references to Rand's ideas and novels in his works.

Terry Goodkind studied at Omaha Benson High School Magnet and Omaha Central High School. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is fantasy literature and American literature. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are fantasy. Ayn Rand is recorded as an influence. Works named in the authority record are The Sword of Truth.

• Name — Terry Goodkind • Birth Name — Terry Goodkind • Born — 11 January 1948 • Birthplace — Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. • Died — 17 September 2020 • Place of death — Boulder City, Nevada, U.S. • Occupation — Writer • Spouse — Jeri • Period — 1994–2020 • Genre — Epic fantasy, sword and sorcery • Notable Works — The Sword of Truth • Website — terrygoodkind.com

Goodkind was born in 1948, and his home town was Omaha, Nebraska. Due to his dyslexia, he showed limited interest in academic studies and did not pursue formal education beyond high school. Goodkind's dyslexia initially dissuaded him from any interest in writing. Before starting his career as a writer, Goodkind built cabinets and violins, and was a marine and wildlife artist, selling his paintings in galleries.

Goodkind's started working on his first book, Wizard's First Rule, in 1993. It was auctioned to a group of three publishers in 1994 and sold for a record price of $275,000. He subsequently published 16 other novels and one novella. All of his books, with the exceptions of Stone of Tears and Wizard's First Rule, have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. His books Chainfire debuted at #3, in January 2005; Phantom at #1, in August 2006; and Confessor at #2, in November, 2007. Some of Goodkind's political views have provoked controversy, notably the dedication to his novel The Pillars of Creation (2001): To the people in the United States Intelligence Community, who, for decades, have valiantly fought to preserve life and liberty, while being ridiculed, condemned, demonized, and shackled by the jackals of evil. Don D'Ammassa described Goodkind as part of a "host of brand new writers [with] no previous experience writing fiction but who could turn out one large epic adventure after another". Robert Eaglestone described his books as a "depressing read" due to the series' overarching cynicism, with a weakness being that the heroic characters are only likable in comparison with utterly murderous villains. In June 2008, Goodkind signed a contract to publish three mainstream novels with G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Books. The first of these novels, titled The Law of Nines, was released August 18, 2009. In April 2010, Goodkind signed a contract to publish three more novels with Tor Books, the first of which revisited the world and characters of the Sword of Truth series. Tor Books published the first new novel, The Omen Machine, on August 16, 2011. Goodkind self-published the second new novel, The First Confessor: the Legend of Magda Searus, on July 2, 2012; the book was ranked #28 on the Kindle bestseller list by the next morning. Tor Books released the sequel to the Omen Machine, The Third Kingdom, on August 20, 2013, and the third novel, Severed Souls, which continues where The Third Kingdom ended, on August 5, 2014. In 2017, a new novel in Sword of Truth Series was released, titled "Death's Mistress". In 2019, Goodkind's continuation of the Sword of Truth series was announced, titled "The Scribbly Man".

In 1983, Goodkind moved with his wife to a house he built in Maine. In 1993 they built a house on the forested Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine where he wrote his first book, Wizard's First Rule. Later, they made their home on the coast of Lake Las Vegas, Nevada, their primary residence. Goodkind died on September 17, 2020, at his home in Boulder City, Nevada. The cause of death was not released. He was survived by his wife Jeri.

• Arc 1: Darken Rahl • Arc 2: Imperial Order • Arc 3: Pristinely Ungifted • Arc 4: Chainfire • Arc 5: The Darklands

• Death's Mistress (2017) • Shroud of Eternity (2018) • Siege of Stone (2018) • Heart of Black Ice (2020)

• The Scribbly Man (2019) • Hateful Things (2019) • Wasteland (2019) • Witch's Oath (2020) • Into Darkness (2020) • The Children of D'Hara (2021) (omnibus of the 5 books)

• Nest (same world as Angela, but not Angela) (2016) • Trouble's Child (2018) • The Girl in the Moon (2018) • Crazy Wanda (2018)

• The Law of Nines (2009) • The Sky People (2019)

On July 24, 2006, it was announced that the Sword of Truth book series would be adapted as a television mini-series produced by Sam Raimi and Joshua Donen. The series was ultimately dubbed Legend of the Seeker, in order to differentiate it from the novels and allow an episodic format of self-contained stories that moved beyond the first book. Raimi, Robert Tapert, Ken Biller, and Ned Nalle served as executive producers for the series, distributed by ABC Studios. The first episode aired in syndication on November 1, 2008, and the show lasted for two seasons until its cancellation in May 2010.