He is the biggest-selling and most popular Objectivist author since Rand herself, and his novels frequently featured lengthy asides where the characters debated Objectivist philosophy.
He was an avid follower of Objectivism and its creator Ayn Rand, whom he frequently named as his favourite author. Goodkind was a controversial figure in the fantasy field, a form of notoriety he seems to have enjoyed. Renamed Legend of the Seeker, two seasons of the show were produced in 2008-10. The Sword of Truth was adapted for television by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. In total Goodkind published twenty-two novels in his lifetime. Goodkind returned to the Sword of Truth world to pen a series of prequel and sequel novels. Goodkind attempted to shift gears to write a contemporary fantasy, The Law of Nines, for a different publisher but the novel did poorly and plans for further books in the series were shelved. The series concluded in 2007 after eleven volumes, having sold over 25 million copies.
The Sword of Truth never achieved either the critical or commercial success of The Wheel of Time, but it did become Tor's second-biggest-selling series of the late 1990s. The book was published in 1994 by Tor Books with a huge marketing push, as they believed it could replicate the success of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time sequence. It was whilst building his own house on an island off the coast in Maine in 1993 that he conceived of an idea for a fantasy novel which became Wizards' First Rule, the first volume in The Sword of Truth series. He instead worked as a woodworker, artist and house-builder.
Born in Nebraska in 1948, Goodkind had little initial interest in writing due to dyslexia, with which he had little support through education.
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