Please take note: This review contains spoilers for books 1 and 2 So, rather than wait patiently, I am going to gather various speculations and list facts to keep in mind. Pat has been described as 'a rough, earthy iconoclast with a pipeline to the divine in everyone's subconscious.' But honestly, that person was pretty drunk at the time, so you might want to take it with a grain of salt. Though it has only been out since April 2007, it has already been sold in 26 foreign countries and won several awards. Through a series of lucky breaks, he has wound up with the best agent and editor imaginable, and the first book of his trilogy has been published under the title 'The Name of the Wind.' He still roll-plays occasionally, but now he does it in an extremely sophisticated, debonair way. He is advisor for the college feminists, the fencing club, and, oddly enough, a sorority. He is underpaid but generally left alone to do as he sees fit with his classes. Now Pat teaches half-time at his old school as an assistant-sub-lecturer. During this period of time his novel was rejected by roughly every agent in the known universe. He left in 2002 with his masters degree, shaking the dust from his feet and vowing never to return.

However, Pat learned that he loved to teach. In 2000 Pat went to grad school for English literature. Through all of this he continued to work on his novel. He also began writing a satirical advice column which he continues to this day: The College Survivial Guide. He studied six different martial arts, practiced improv comedy, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women. He also began writing a book.įor the next seven years Pat studied anthropology, philosophy, eastern religions, history, alchemy, parapsychology, literature, and writing. In 1993 he quit pretending he knew what he wanted to do with his life, changed his major to 'undecided,' and proceeded to study whatever amused him. In 1991 he started college in order to pursue a career in chemical engineering, then he considered clinical psychology.

Most of Pat's adult life has been spent in the University Wisconsin Stevens Point. He also role-played and wrote terrible stories about elves. His hobbies included reading a novel or two a day and giving relationship advice to all his friends despite the fact that he had never so much as kissed a girl. In high-school Pat was something of a class clown. Throughout his formative years they encouraged him to do his best, gave him good advice, and were no doubt appropriately dismayed when he failed to live up to his full potential. It all began when Pat Rothfuss was born to a marvelous set of parents.

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