Terry Brooks was a practising attorney for many years, but now writes full time. His first novel, THE SWORD OF SHANNARA, remained on the NYT bestseller list for 5 months, and is considered by many to be responsible for the creation of the modern commercial fantasy market.
Terry's place is at the head of the fantasy world -- Philip Pullman If you haven't read Terry Brooks, you haven't read fantasy -- Christopher Paolini, author of ERAGON I can't even begin to count how many of Terry Brooks's books I've read (and re-read) over the years -- Patrick Rothfuss, author of THE NAME OF THE WIND