

in English, and then enrolled at the BYU’s creative writing graduate program, from where in 2005 he earned an M.F.A. At the same time, he started working part-time at a local hotel in Provo, Utah, as a night-time clerk, which allowed him to focus on writing books on the job. Upon returning from his missionary work, he went back to the same college but changed his major to English Literature. Between 1995 to 1997, he took a two-year hiatus from studies to go to South Korea as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a volunteer missionary. In 1994 he graduated from high school, following which he enrolled at Brigham Young University with a major in biochemistry. At some point, he tried writing his own fantasy stories. As a teenager, he started to read fantasy novels and got hooked right away. The American fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Arcanum Unbounded, 2016 (collection of short stories).Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, 2015 (novella).A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time #14), 2013.By Grace and Banners Fallen (Wheel of Time #13.5), 2012.

Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time #13), 2010.The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time #12), 2009.What the Storm Means (Wheel of Time #11.5), 2009.Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, 2007.Mistborn: Secret History (companion story), 2016.The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2), 2007.The Emperor’s Soul, 2012 (not quite part of Elantris, but both novels take place on the same planet).

