29 Facts About Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Winn Sanderson was born on December 19,1975 and is an American author of high fantasy and science fiction.

Brandon Sanderson is best known for the Cosmere fictional universe, in which most of his fantasy novels, most notably the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, are set.

Brandon Sanderson is known for finishing Robert Jordan's high fantasy series The Wheel of Time.

Brandon Sanderson created Sanderson's Laws of Magic and popularized the idea of "hard magic" and "soft magic" systems.

In 2008, Brandon Sanderson started a podcast with author Dan Wells and cartoonist Howard Tayler called Writing Excuses, involving topics about creating genre writing and webcomics.

Brandon Sanderson was born on December 19,1975, in Lincoln, Nebraska, the eldest of four children.

Brandon Sanderson became a passionate reader of high fantasy novels while a teenager, and he made several early attempts at writing his own stories.

Brandon Sanderson took a two-year leave of absence from 1995 to 1997 to serve as a volunteer missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was assigned to serve in South Korea.

Brandon Sanderson graduated from BYU in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts.

In 2006, Brandon Sanderson married Emily Bushman, an English, Spanish, and ESL teacher and fellow BYU alumna who later became his business manager.

Brandon Sanderson wrote consistently throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies; by 2003, he had written twelve novels, though no publisher had accepted any of them for publication.

Brandon Sanderson had submitted the manuscript of his sixth novel, Elantris, a year and a half earlier.

Brandon Sanderson published the second book of the Mistborn series The Well of Ascension in 2007.

Later that year, Brandon Sanderson published the children's novel Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, about a boy named Alcatraz with a talent for breaking things.

Brandon Sanderson rose to prominence in late 2007 when Harriet McDougal, the wife and editor of author Robert Jordan, chose Brandon Sanderson to complete the final books in Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time after Jordan's death.

McDougal asked Brandon Sanderson to finish the series after being deeply impressed by his first Mistborn novel, The Final Empire.

In 2010, Brandon Sanderson published The Way of Kings, the first of a planned ten-book series called The Stormlight Archive.

Nine months later, Brandon Sanderson published Mistborn: Shadows of Self as a direct sequel to The Alloy of Law.

On November 16,2015, Brandon Sanderson's agency announced that Brandon Sanderson officially sold over 7 million copies worldwide.

In 2020, Brandon Sanderson's agency updated his number of copies sold to over 18 million worldwide, and in early 2021, to over 21 million.

In March 2021, Brandon Sanderson announced a "Weekly Update" in his YouTube channel which will give updates on his current projects every week.

On May 26, Brandon Sanderson revealed the title and cover for "Cytonic", the third book of his Skyward series, which was published on November 23,2021.

Brandon Sanderson announced in March 2022 that, over the previous two pandemic years, he had secretly written five otherwise-unannounced books.

Brandon Sanderson collaborated with Unknown Worlds Entertainment to create the lore and setting for the video game Moonbreaker, which was released via early access in September 2022.

Brandon Sanderson has estimated that the Cosmere sequence could conclude with at least 40 books.

Brandon Sanderson is adjunct faculty at Brigham Young University, teaching a creative writing course once per year.

Brandon Sanderson participates in the weekly podcast Writing Excuses with authors Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, and web cartoonist Howard Tayler.

Brandon Sanderson began hosting the podcast Intentionally Blank with Dan Wells in June 2021, where they discuss random things they enjoy.

Brandon Sanderson has been nominated for and won multiple awards for his various works.