15 Facts About Terry Brooks

Terence Dean Brooks was born on January 8,1944 and is an American writer of fantasy fiction.

Terry Brooks writes mainly epic fantasy, and has written two film novelizations.

Terry Brooks has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has sold over 25 million copies of his books in print.

Terry Brooks is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers.

Terry Brooks was born in the rural Midwestern town of Sterling, Illinois, and spent a large part of his life living there.

Terry Brooks later obtained a JD degree from Washington and Lee University.

Terry Brooks was a practising attorney before becoming a full-time author.

Terry Brooks had been a writer since high school, writing mainly in the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction.

Terry Brooks then wrote a four-book series titled The Heritage of Shannara.

Terry Brooks then wrote two series, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara and High Druid of Shannara and finished a third, Genesis of Shannara, a trilogy bridging his Word and Void and Shannara series.

Terry Brooks next completed a trilogy entitled The Dark Legacy of Shannara.

Terry Brooks followed this with the trilogy Defenders of Shannara, which include The High Druid's Blade, The Darkling Child, and The Sorcerer's Daughter.

Terry Brooks has written a number of other books, based on movies, science fiction and his own life.

Terry Brooks's own writing life is reflected in two stories, Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life, published February 3,2004, and Why I Write About Elves published in 2005.

Terry Brooks has written a number of e-book short stories which are published in a book titled Small Magic with his other short stories.