I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

in English literature in 1966. Brooks then wrote a four-book series titled The Heritage of Shannara. Give me a five hundred page sprawl as an assignment any day.

He writes mainly epic fantasy and has also written two movie novelizations. Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born January 8 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers.