Īfter completing his missionary service, Sanderson returned to BYU and changed his major to English literature. He took a two-year leave of absence from 1995 to 1997 to serve as a volunteer missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was assigned to serve in South Korea. After graduating from high school in 1994, he went to Brigham Young University (BYU) as a biochemistry major. Sanderson became a passionate reader of high fantasy novels while a teenager, and he made several early attempts at writing his own stories. Personal life Early life and education īrandon Winn Sanderson was born on December 19, 1975, in Lincoln, Nebraska, the eldest of four children. Sanderson's March 2022 Kickstarter campaign became the most successful in history, finishing with 185,341 backers pledging $41,754,153. In 2016, the American media company DMG Entertainment licensed the movie rights to Sanderson's entire Cosmere universe, but the rights have since reverted back to Sanderson. In 2008, Sanderson started a podcast with author Dan Wells and cartoonist Howard Tayler called Writing Excuses, involving topics about creating genre writing and webcomics. He created Sanderson's Laws of Magic and popularized the idea of 'hard magic' and 'soft magic' systems. Sanderson has created several graphic novel fantasy series, including White Sand and Dark One. He is also known for finishing Robert Jordan's high fantasy series The Wheel of Time. Outside of the Cosmere, he has written several young adult and juvenile series including The Reckoners, the Skyward series, and the Alcatraz series.

He is best known for the Cosmere fictional universe, in which most of his fantasy novels, most notably the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, are set. Final three books of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Timeīrandon Winn Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American author of high fantasy and science fiction.

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