Biography of Terry Brooks
Contemporary fantasies
January 8, 1944Terrence Dean Brooks, known as fantasy and science fiction author Terry Brooks, was born the day January 8, 1944, near Sterling in the State of Illinois. After studying English literature at Hamilton College earned a Bachelor's degree in law at Washington & Lee University ". Practice the legal profession; only later he dedicated himself to writing.
"The sword of Shannara" is his first novel and dates back to the year 1977: the book soon became a bestseller worldwide, and is also the top-selling books (the most authoritative classificia is that of the New York Times) for over five months.
Terry Brooks has often been criticized for allegedly plagiarizing the work of Tolkien: there are strong similarities between the two stories, but Brooks is unanimously recognized the merit of having given birth to a genre called "modern fantasy", undoubtedly one of the most prolific kinds of contemporary fiction. Then, with the passage of time the production of Terry Brooks is way deviating from the canons typical of the fantasy genre while maintaining and possibly raising his level and very little literary qualities, which rarely happens to other authors, of all kinds, and their works follow a best seller.
The production of Brooks is wide and is divided into cycles or sagas: the sword of Shannara Trilogy, tetralogy of the scions of Shannara, "the first King of Shannara (Shannara series novel prelude to later works), the trilogy of the voyage of the Jerle Shannara, the Druid of Shannara Trilogy of Supreme, the cycle of Landover, the trilogy of the word and void and the Genesis of Shannara Trilogy. Among other works by Brooks include the novelization of the movie "hook" Hook (1991, by Steven Spielberg), and "Star Wars Episode I-the phantom menace" (1999, by George Lucas).
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