The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (226 page)

A writer since high school,
Terry Brooks
published his first novel,
The Sword of Shannara,
in 1977. It was a
New York Times
bestseller for more than five months. He has published seventeen consecutive bestsellers since, including
The Voyage of the
Jerle Shannara
: Antrax
and the novel based upon the screenplay and story by George Lucas:
Star Wars ® :
Episode I
The Phantom Menace ™.
His novels
Running with the Demon
and
A Knight of the Word
were selected by the
Rocky Mountain News
as two of the best science fiction/fantasy novels of the twentieth century.

The author was a practicing attorney for many years but now writes full-time. He lives with his wife, Judine, in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.

Visit us online at
www.shannara.com
and at
www.terrybrooks.net.