Terry Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is a writer of fantasy fiction. Terry Brooks mainly writes high fantasy, and has also written several movie novelizations.
Easton Press Terry Brooks books
The Sword of Shannara - Signed Limited Edition - 1997
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Author Terry Brooks
Brooks is an alumnus of Hamilton College, obtaining his B.A. in English Literature in 1966. He later obtained a J.D. from Washington and Lee University. Before becoming an author he was a practicing attorney.
His first novel, The Sword of Shannara, was an immediate bestseller, but some critics accused Brooks of having plagiarized the plot from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - something that he strenuously denies. The chief similarity is that it is a heroic fantasy featuring various races who form an alliance against a dark lord and set out on a quest to defeat him.
Brooks had been a writer since high school, writing mainly in the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction. One day, in his early college life, he was given a copy of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, which inspired him to write in one genre. He then made his debut in 1977 with his first novel The Sword of Shannara. This novel became the first fantasy book ever to appear on the New York Times bestseller list, where it stayed for five months.
The Sword of Shannara
Living
in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that
plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon
revealed that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destroy
the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword
of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir of Shannara Shea
being the last of the bloodline, upon whom all hope rested. Soon a Skull
Bearer, dread minion of Evil, flew into the Vale, seeking to destroy
Shea. To save the Vale, Shea fled, drawing the Skull Bearer after
him....