American fantasy author best known for The Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy, of which two of three planned volumes have been published since 2007.
Brought literary prose quality and an unreliable narrator frame to epic fantasy with The Name of the Wind, creating a widely celebrated series that remains unfinished due to publicly documented creative difficulties.
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