Patrick Rothfuss

In June 2015, he and Max Temkin started a podcast called Unattended Consequences, then named Untitled Patrick Rothfuss.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things was published in October 2014 as a companion tale for The Kingkiller Chronicle, featuring the character Auri.

In 2014, Rothfuss began collaborating with James Ernest to create an abstract strategy game called Tak based on the game featured in his book The Wise Man's Fear.

Patrick Rothfuss was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and received his B.A. 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 received an M.A. at Washington State University, and returned to teach at Stevens Point. In 2002, he won the Writers of the Future 2002 Second Quarter competition with "The Road to Levenshir," an excerpt from his then-unpublished novel The Wise Man's Fear.

Rothfuss has also released two novella-length 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 Lightning Tree," released in Rogues in June 2014, featuring character Bast. The whole anthology was nominated for the 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.

Rothfuss has played a character named Viari in the Penny Arcade's live Dungeons & Dragons games known as Acquisitions Inc. from Season 7 onward, as well as a guest role in its spin-off show "The 'C' Team". He also role-played as guest character Kerrek in Geek and Sundry's show Critical Role episode 56, "Hope," and again in episodes 81–84. He also recorded a letter his character wrote which was heard in episode 69, "Passed Through Fire".

In August 2012, Rothfuss began a monthly podcast called The Story Board on fantasy, featuring authors such as Terry Brooks and Brandon Sanderson. The Story Board ran for eight episodes.

Rothfuss organizes the charity Worldbuilders, which, since 2008, has raised over $9.5 million, primarily for Heifer International, a charity that provides livestock, clean water, education, and training for communities in the developing world. At the end-of-year fundraiser for 2017 Worldbuilders raised $1,225,357 for Heifer International.

In 2006, Rothfuss sold his novel The Name of the Wind to DAW Books, which 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. 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. A customer service representative at DAW has announced that they have received no word from Rothfuss on a release date for the third book in the trilogy, and stated placeholder dates on Amazon are for special anniversary editions of his previous works.

Patrick James Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American writer of epic fantasy. He is best known for his ongoing trilogy The Kingkiller Chronicle, which won him several awards, including the 2007 Quill Award for his debut novel, The Name of the Wind. Its sequel, The Wise Man's Fear, topped The New York Times Best Seller list.