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Terry Goodkind
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- Born
- 11 January 1948
- Died
- 17 September 2020
- Works
- 141
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- Wizards First/Storm Warning Dumpbin
- Les chroniques de Nicci - Tome 2
- Les chroniques de Nicci - Tome 3
- Legends volume 2 [3 works]
- Das Meer und kleine Fische
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Terry Goodkind (born 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA) is a contemporary American writer and author of the best-selling epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth, which, according to his publisher Tor Books in an August 2006 press release, has more than 10 million copies in print and has been translated into 20 different languages. In a recent Publishers Weekly article, it was reported that Goodkind has sold 25 million copies worldwide. Goodkind's novels include the following: <a href="https://www.las
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5 total works indexed
- A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research
· 2016 · cited 25,013x
- A safe operating space for humanity
· 2009 · cited 9,700x
- Estimating Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys
· 1977 · cited 9,531x
- The Occurrence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing among Middle-Aged Adults
· 1993 · cited 7,609x
- Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells
· 2017 · cited 7,153x
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Quotes
- “Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Terry Goodkind , ( 1948-01-11 ) January 11, 1948, Omaha, Nebraska , U.S.
- Died
- September 17, 2020 (2020-09-17) (aged 72), Boulder City, Nevada , U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer
- Period
- 1994–2020
- Genre
- Epic fantasy , sword and sorcery
- Notable works
- The Sword of Truth
- Spouse
- Jeri
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Encyclopedic overview
Terry Lee Goodkind (January 11, 1948 – September 17, 2020) was an American writer. He was known for the epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth as well as the contemporary suspense novel The Law of Nines (2009), which has ties to his fantasy series. The Sword of Truth series sold 25 million copies worldwide and was translated into more than 20 languages. Additionally, it was adapted into a television series called Legend of the Seeker. Legend of the Seeker premiered on November 1, 2008, and ran for two seasons; the television series finished in May 2010.
Goodkind was a proponent of Ayn Rand's philosophical approach of objectivism, and made references to Rand's ideas and novels in his works.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Terry Goodkind” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.