Jim Butcher
Né(e): October 26, 1971 – Independence, Missouri, United States
Jim Butcher is an American fantasy author best known for The Dresden Files, a long-running urban fantasy series featuring wizard-detective Harry Dresden. He also wrote Codex Alera and The Cinder Spires. A regular bestseller, Butcher has reached the New York Times list and helped popularize contemporary fantasy blending noir, magic, and action.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
Jim Butcher came to fantasy and science fiction early, in part through books handed to him while recovering from childhood illness. The youngest of three siblings, he grew up wanting stories he could not quite find on the shelf, a motive that later became central to his fiction. He studied English and creative writing at the University of Oklahoma, did some graduate work in journalism, and there developed an important mentorship with novelist Deborah Chester. A decisive turning point came when he wrote what became Storm Front for a writing class, then persisted through years of rejection until agent representation and a sale to Roc turned the project into a career.
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"Jim Butcher is a brilliant world-builder"
— Midwest Book Review
"Jim Butcher has long proven he can juggle multiple threads of political intrigue, personal drama, and threat with a masterful use of action and tension"
— Kim Harrison
"Jim Butcher’s exciting new series is a steampunk-steeped, Napoleonic naval battle-flavored series called The Cinder Spires"
— BookPage
"If there is an author that defines urban fantasy, it is Jim Butcher"
— Fresh Fiction
"This is everything I’ve come to expect from Jim Butcher, but in a delightful new flavor"
— Patrick Rothfuss
"Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series is the literary equivalent of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup"
— BookPage
"This is Jim Butcher at his best, drawing a fully realized, richly detailed, and downright fun literary world"
— David Weber
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