Brandon’s major books for the second half of 2016 arethe final volume in Alcatraz Smedry’s autobiographical account of his battle against the Evil Librarians who secretly rule our world, andthe collection of short fiction in the Cosmere universe that includes the Mistborn series and the StormlightArchive, among others. This collection featuresand a brand-new Stormlight Archive novella,Earlier this year he releasedthe finale of the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners trilogy that began withBrandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested to him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This changed when an eighth grade teacher gave himby Barbara Hambly Brandon was working on his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. Tor has publishedthe Mistborn trilogy and its followupandandthe first two in the planned ten-volume series The Stormlight Archive. He was chosen to complete Robert Jordan ’s Wheel of Time series; 2009’sand 2010’swere followed by the final book in the series,in January 2013. Four books in his middle-gradeseries have been released in new editions by Starscape, and his novellawas an ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimediOS video game series. Two more novellas,andwere released by Subterranean Press and Tachyon Publications in 2012, and 2013 brought two young adult novels,from Tor andfrom Delacorte.The only author to make the short list for the David Gemmell Legend Award six times in four years, Brandon won that award in 2011 forwon the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novella. He has appeared on theBest-Seller List multiple times, with five novels hitting the #1 spot.Currently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.