13th October 2006, 09:50 PM
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| Daisy Toadfoot
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wiltshire
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| Re: Rampant Misspellings Actually nixie's right, Feist does suffer from dyslexia, it's on this site... http://www.edlin.org/sf/eng/november/feist.html Raymond (Elias) Feist (1945-) were born in Los Angeles, USA. He studied communication arts at the University of California, San Diego and graduated with honours and received a B.A. in 1977. He started writing as a hobby in 1977, and started to write seriously in 1978. Among authors that has influenced him he lists Alexandre Dumas (father and son), Harold Lamb, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rafael Sabatini. He has been much influenced by adventure writers from the 50s and forwards. As his fellow collegaue Terry Goodkind, Feist suffers from a form of dyslexia. He lives in San Diego, Califronia together with his wife Kathlyn Starbuck (also an author), their two children and two cats. Among his interests are collection movies, wine and horses. He is very actively around on the net and participates on mailinglists. xx |
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