


He took a two-year leave of absence from 1995 to 1997 to serve as a volunteer missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was assigned to serve in South Korea.Īfter completing his missionary service, Sanderson returned to BYU and changed his major to English literature. After graduating from high school in 1994, he went to Brigham Young University as a biochemistry major. Sanderson became a passionate reader of high fantasy novels while a teenager, and he made several early attempts at writing his own stories. Early Life And Educationīrandon Sanderson was born on December 19, 1975, in Lincoln, Nebraska, the eldest of four children. He could feel the mine out there nobody wanted to live nexta it, so Wayne and his ma did. Rusts knew there was nothing else in this one-window home Uncle Gregr had cared about.ĭ o n t think about it, Wayne thought, bungling his shuffle and spilling cards over the table and floor. Wayne kicked the table sometimes, in case Gregrs spirit was watching and was fond of it. Back before he got crushed by a billion rocks in a landslide and mushed into a pulp what couldnt hit people no more.

You just had to give it something it wanted, like someone else to eat.Īnyway, no bed for him. He could make friends with something what lived unner a bed. Other kids were scared of mistwraiths, but Wayne figured they just didnt know how to negotiate properly. Which made beds soft and squishy on top, with someone underneath you could talk to. Theyd hide unner your bed and steal the faces of people you knew. A bed sounded much better than a mat on the groundespecially one he had to share with his ma when the nights were cold, because they didnt have any coal. Other kids in Tinweight Settlement had them. The Lost Metal (Mistborn 7) Weekly Update
