“I remember my father picking me up and I remember his laugh,” Feist said. Five years later, their mother married a scriptwriter and director. But his father died when Ray was a youngster of 4 and his brother just a toddler. He was born in Los Angeles as Raymond Elias Gonzalez III, the son of a professional musician. Years later, when asked why he wrote fantasy, he replied, “Because no one writes boys’ adventures any more.”įull of fateful twists, his own boyhood reads like fiction. Rider Haggard, Rafael Sabatini and other masters of hairbreadth escapes and cliffhanger plots. While none of his works have become movies or lavish TV productions like HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” they inspired two popular video games.Īs a boy, Ray devoured books by Robert Louis Stevenson, H. “End” is a victory lap for a writer whose yarns about the warring worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan have scaled The New York Times and The Times of London best-seller lists.
“Magician’s End” will bring this saga’s page count past 12,000 and its sales over the 20-million-volume mark. On May 14, the 29th and final installment of Feist’s Riftwar Cycle, hits stores. Unless that paper was the manuscript of “Magician.” The novel - which The Washington Post’s critic called “totally gripping” - cast a spell with its sorcery, swordplay and promise.Ĭonsider that promise fulfilled. His résumé - failed businessman, former car salesman, “Dungeons & Dragons” devotee, unemployed and living in his mother’s El Cajon home - didn’t exactly scream America’s Next Great Writer of Genre Fiction.
Or so it seemed in the 1970s, when Feist was trying to sell his first novel. Feist, internationally best-selling author? What a fantasy!
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