Who wrote The Wheel of Time?
Amazon is currently adapting?The Wheel of Time?books for TV, which is getting a lot more people interested in the original novels. That’s great news. Published between 1990 and 2013,?The Wheel of Time?series is an epic fantasy beloved by millions. There are 14 books in all, plus one prequel.
So who wrote?The Wheel of Time?series? The answer is slightly more complicated than you might think. The story begins with author Brandon Sanderson. He wrote the first 11 books in the mainline series, starting with?The Eye of the World. He also wrote?New Spring, a prequel book that came out in 2004, between the tenth and eleventh books.
However, Sanderson died in 2007 of complications from multiple myeloma, a kind of blood cancer. So he did not have a chance to finish the series.
Robert Jordan began?The Wheel of Time?series, but Brandon Sanderson finished it
And yet the series is finished. That’s because fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, himself known for works like?The Stormlight Archive, wrote the final three books in the series:?The Gathering Storm,?Towers of Midnight?and?A Memory of Light. Sanderson did with the blessing of Jordan’s family. Sanderson worked closely off Jordan’s own notes about the ending he had intended to write.
Brandon Sanderson, from his “It’s Time to Come Clean” YouTube reveal video.
So?The Wheel of Time?series was written by two people, although given that Sanderson tried to stick as closely to Jordan’s intent as possible, we can say that it’s really Jordan’s vision driving the story throughout, even in the books he himself didn’t write.
Sanderson is alive today, writing new books and consulting on Amazon’s?Wheel of Time?show. In fact, he has quite a lot to say on that score:
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