In 1967, while attending Washington and Lee University in Virginia, he began writing a novel. Reading the books galvanized him to write fantasy. It was while studying at college that he encountered J.R.R. He wrote throughout high school, and eventually attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he majored in English. I read everything in science-fiction in my middle grade years, back when you could do that because there wasn’t that much.” From an early age, he was a scienc- fiction fan, telling fellow fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss “You name it, I read it. Terence Brooks was born on January 8 th, 1944, in Sterling, Illinois, where he spent much of his childhood. Now, a new fantasy series has been brought over to television: The Shannara Chronicles, based on the fantasy series by Terry Brooks. Epic fantasy has been big in the last couple of years, with the massive success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, as well as that of HBO’s adaptation of George R.R.
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