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Raymond E. Feist


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in Los Angeles, California, The United States
December 23, 1945

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Raymond E. Feist was born Raymond E. Gonzales III, but took his adoptive step-father's surname when his mother remarried Felix E. Feist. He graduated with a B.A. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego. During that year Feist had some ideas for a novel about a boy who would be a magician. He wrote the novel two years later, and it was published in 1982 by Doubleday. Feist currently lives in San Diego with his children, where he collects fine wine, DVDs, and books on a variety of topics of personal interest: wine, biographies, history, and, especially, the history of American Professional Football. ...more

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Touching greatness

I first saw John Wooden at court side in 1963.  My neighbors had an extra ticket for the L.A. Basketball Classic, an invitational college basketball tourney hosted jointly by USC and UCLA, which at the time shared the L.A. Sports Arena as their home court (until two years later when UCLA opened Pauley Pavilion on campus).

They said, "We're going to see Michigan with Cazzy Russel."  "Who they playin

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“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.”
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“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
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Shadows of the Apt, 10 books by Adrian Tchaikovsky, starting with Empire in Black and Gold
 
  13 votes, 30.2%

Wheel of Time, 14 books by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, starting with The Eye of the World
 
  11 votes, 25.6%

Riftwar Saga/Empire Trilogy, 7 books by Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts, starting with Magician: Apprentice
 
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