5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American novelist whose A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series (adapted as Game of Thrones) brought literary complexity, moral ambiguity, and genuine unpredictability to epic fantasy — and whose slow writing pace has become a cultural phenomenon.
J. K. Rowling's 1998 second Harry Potter novel in which Harry confronts the memory of a young Tom Riddle embedded in a diary — facing his shadow self and the origins of Voldemort.
British author of the Harry Potter series — one of the best-selling fiction series of all time — whose hero narrative Peterson reads as a modern instantiation of the archetypal hero's journey from chaos to order through voluntary suffering and self-sacrifice.
American fantasy author best known for The Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy, of which two of three planned volumes have been published since 2007.
Patrick Rothfuss's 2007 debut fantasy novel, the first volume of The Kingkiller Chronicle, following the legendary magician Kvothe as he narrates his own life story at an inn.