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As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
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