BY DAVE WOLVERTON
Dave Wolverton is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author with dozens of books to his credit. He began his career writing short fiction winning the Gold Award in the Writers of the Future Contest, which vaulted him into prominence in the mid-1980s. His science fiction novels include the highly praised On My Way to Paradise, which won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award for “Best Novel in the English Language.”
Dave has also written novels in the Star Wars and Mummy Universes, and has worked as a video game designer, most notably for Starcraft’s Brood War.
In 1999 he set the Guinness record for the world’s largest single-person, single-book signing.
In the mid-1990s he began to follow his love for writing fantasy under the pen name David Farland, where he became best known for his international bestselling Runelords series; he has also won the Whitney Award for best novel of the year for his historical novel In the Company of Angels, and the International Book Award for Best Young Adult Novel of the Year, along with the Hollywood Book Award for Best Book of the year for his young adult fantasy thriller Nightingale.
Dave now serves as Coordinating Judge for the Writers of the Future Contest.