David Eddings, a much-beloved and acclaimed fantasy author, passed away last Tuesday (June 2nd, 2009) due to natural causes in his home in Carson City, Nevada. Eddings was 77.
Eddings, an American author who was born on July 7th, 1931 in Spokane, Washington, wrote many novels and series. His most well-known series included Belgariad and Malloreon. Eddings’ late wife, Leigh Eddings, was a co-author for the majority of his works but was not credited as such until the late 1990’s.
Eddings’ began his writing career in 1973 with High Hunt, a non-fantasy coming of age novel revolving around four young men hunting deer shortly after the Vietnam War. Eddings contributed his move to fantasy fiction after reading a copy of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, which he was startled to discover was in its 78th edition.
