Terry Brooks
(b.1944)
Bio:
Born in Illinois, received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton
College, majoring in English Literature, and his graduate degree from the
School of Law at Washington & Lee University.
A writer since high school, he published his first novel,
The Sword of Shannara
Brooks was a practicing attorney for many years, but now writes
full-time. He lives with his wife, Judine, in the Pacific Northwest.
Bibliography:
- Series
- Angel Fire East
- September 2000, Random House Mass Market Paperback
ISBN:0-345-43525-7
Amazon.com
- The Black Unicorn
- The Druid of Shannara
- The Elf Queen of Shannara
- Book on Tape read by Theodore Bikel ISBN:0-787-10123-0
- March 1993, Del Rey Mass Market Paperback Reprint Edition
ISBN:0-345-28554-9
Amazon.com
- The Elfstones of Shannara
- October 2000, Ballantine Books Mass Market Paperback
Reissue Edition ISBN:0-345-28554-9
Amazon.com
- First King of Shannara
- Prequel set 500 years before the events of Sword of
Shannara.
- October 2000, Del Rey Mass Market Paperback
ISBN:0-345-39653-7
Amazon.com
- Hook
- Jarka Ruus: High Druid of Shannara
- Book One
- September 2003, Dell Rey Ballantine Hardcover
- A Knight of the Word
- Magic Kingdom For Sale - Sold!
- Morgawr
- August 2002, Del Rey Hardcover ISBN:0-345-43572-9
Amazon.com
- Running With the Demon
- July 1998, Del Rey Mass Market Paperback Reprint Edition
ISBN:0-345-42258-9
Amazon.com
- The Scions of Shannara
- June 1993, Del Rey mass Market Paperback ISBN:0-345-37074-0
Amazon.com
- The Sword of Shannara
- 1977
- Ballantine Books ISBN:0-345-27444-X.
- The Talismans of Shannara
- 1993 Del Rey ISBN:0-345-38674-4 LCCN:92-90377. Cover
art by Keith Parkinson.
- Book Four of The Heritage of Shannara
- Tanequil
- 2004
- The Tangle Box
- April 1995 in hardcover
- Terry Brooks sends ex-lawyer, now-king Ben
Holiday back to the Magic Kingdom of Landover, where an exiled wizard and
his crabby bird companion beg Ben to be allowed to remain there. Ben agrees,
despite the warnings from his doglike Court Scribe and the wizened old
wizard Questor Thews. But the exiled wizard is under the spell of a dark
sorcerer, and Ben himself gets entrapped in The Tangle Box
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Sample Chapter
- The Voyage of Jerle Shannara: Antrax
- The Voyage of Jerle Shannara: Isle Witch
- Witches' Brew
- April 1995 in hardcover
- Former Chicago lawyer--now High King of the
Magic Kingdom of Landover--Ben Holiday's daughter is born, and, not
surprisingly, she has magic powers. But then Mistaya disappears, taken
by the witch Nighshade. Ben has to battle seven champions, each in a
different form, to get her back. But something about the nature of his
opponents makes Ben wonder just who the champions came from...
- The Wishsong of Shannara
- October 2000, Ballantine Books Mass Market Paperback Reissue
Edition ISBN:0-345-35636-5
Amazon.com
- Wizard at Large
- "Indomitale
- 2003, in Legends II
edited by
Robert Silverberg
Other Brooks links:
The Wondrous Worlds of Terry Brooks: Official Site
Hildebrant Brothers: Illustrations for the Sword of Shannara
The Terry Brooks Experience