派崔克·罗斯弗斯

派崔克·罗斯弗斯（Patrick Rothfuss，1973年6月6日—）是美国史诗奇幻小说作家。他是以《弑君者三部曲》（The Kingkiller Chronicle）闻名于世。

生平

派崔克·罗斯弗斯出生在威斯康星州麦迪逊市，在威斯康星大学史蒂芬斯角分校获得学士学位。

他在1999年获得华盛顿州立大学硕士学位后，返回在威斯康星大学史蒂芬斯角分校任教。2007年，派崔克·罗斯弗斯以《弑君者三部曲》首集《风之名》出道。

著作

《风之名》

《风之名2：智者之惧》

《风之名外传：沉默的音乐》

荣誉

未来作家 (2002年)

奎尔奖 (2007)

"年度最佳书籍" (2007) – 出版者周刊 – Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Epic Fantasy (2007)

Patrick James Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American author. He is best known for his highly acclaimed series The Kingkiller Chronicle, beginning with Rothfuss' debut novel, The Name of the Wind (2007), which won several awards, and continuing in the sequel, The Wise Man's Fear (2011), which topped The New York Times Best Seller list.

Early life

Patrick Rothfuss was born in Madison, Wisconsin, graduated from DeForest Area High School, and received his BA in English from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1999. He contributed to The Pointer, the campus paper, and produced a widely circulated parody warning about the Goodtimes Virus. He taught part-time at Stevens Point. In 2002, he received a master's degree in arts and English from Washington State University. He won the Writers of the Future 2002 Second Quarter competition with "The Road to Levenshir", an excerpt from his then-unpublished novel The Wise Man's Fear.

Career

Writing

In 2006, Rothfuss sold his novel The Name of the Wind to DAW Books; the book was released in 2007. It won a Quill Award (for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror) and was listed among Publishers Weekly's Books of the Year. It also won an Alex Award in 2008. An illustrated tenth anniversary edition was published in 2017. Its sequel, The Wise Man's Fear, was published in March 2011 and reached No. 1 on the New York Times Hardback Fiction Best Seller list.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things, a novella illustrated by Nate Taylor, was published in October 2014 as a companion story for The Kingkiller Chronicle; the novella centers on the character Auri.

Rothfuss has also released two stories set in the same world as The Kingkiller Chronicle in anthologies. The first was "How Old Holly Came To Be", published in Unfettered in June 2013. The second was the novella The Lightning Tree, released in Rogues in June 2014, featuring the character Bast. The whole anthology was nominated for the 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.

"The Lightning Tree" was later expanded and published in 2024 as a standalone novella, The Narrow Road Between Desires. Nate Taylor returned to illustrate it.

Taylor and Rothfuss also collaborated on two The Princess and Mr. Whiffle books, which are "a dark twist on the classic children’s picture-book". The first volume released in 2010, and its sequel in 2013, both by Subterranean Press.

In 2018, Rothfuss was the co-writer of the comics limited series Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons #1-4 with Jim Zub and with art by Troy Little. The crossover, between the adult animated sitcom Rick and Morty comic book and Dungeons & Dragons, was published by IDW Publishing and Oni Press. The Rick and Morty vs Dungeons and Dragons Deluxe Edition, by Rothfuss, Zub, and Little, was nominated for the 2022 "Best Graphic Album—Reprint" Eisner Award.

In July 2020, Rothfuss's editor and publisher Betsy Wollheim responded publicly on her Facebook account to an article speculating on reasons why The Doors of Stone, the concluding volume of the trilogy, had not been published. Woldheim noted that she had "never seen a word of book three" and that she didn't think Rothfuss had written anything since 2014, despite having already been paid. While Wollheim partially agreed that readers shouldn't feel entitled to dictate how Rothfuss spends his time, she asked, "But what about the publishers who paid them?". The post has since been deleted.