“Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.”

American author

Patrick James Rothfuss is an American author best known for The Kingkiller Chronicle. His debut novel, The Name of the Wind, was published in 2007 and won several awards. He followed it with The Wise Man's Fear in 2011, the second book in the series, which reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller list. His work is known for the fantasy world and storytelling of that series.