Terry Brooks

Terry Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is a writer of fantasy fiction.

Terry Brooks writes mainly high fantasy, and has also written several movie novelizations.

He is an alumnus of Hamilton College and Washington and Lee University. Before becoming an author he was a practicing attorney.

His first novel, The Sword of Shannara, was an immediate bestseller, but some critics accused Brooks of having plagiarized the plot from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - something that he strenuously denies. The chief similarity is that is a heroic fantasy featuring various races who form an alliance against a dark lord and set out on a quest to defeat him - but this is of course the template for a great many other fantasy epics as well.

Book list

Shannara series:

• First King of Shannara
  
• The Sword of Shannara
  
• Elfstones of Shannara
  
• Wishsong of Shannara
  
• Scions of Shannara
  
• Druid of Shannara
  
• Elfqueen of Shannara
  
• Talismans of Shannara
  
• Ilse Witch
  
• Antrax
  

Magic Kingdom series:

• Magic Kingdom For Sale..SOLD
  
• The Black Unicorn
  
• Wizard at Large
  
• The Tangle Box
  
• Witches Brew
  

Demon/Trollstown series:

• Running with the Demon
  
• A Knight of the Word
  
• Angel Fire East
  

Novelizations:

• Hook
  
• The Phantom Menace