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
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