David and leigh eddings

David and leigh eddings books

With his wife Leigh , he authored several best-selling epic fantasy novel series, including The Belgariad —84 , The Malloreon —91 , The Elenium —91 , The Tamuli —94 , and The Dreamers — Eddings was known to claim to be part Cherokee. Eddings grew up near Puget Sound in the City of Snohomish. After graduating from Reed College, Eddings was drafted into the U.

Army, [ 6 ] having also previously served in the National Guard. After earning his Master's, Eddings worked as a purchaser for Boeing , where he met his future wife, then known as Judith Leigh Schall. Eddings and his wife Leigh pled guilty to 11 counts of physical child abuse [ 9 ] of their adopted children. They adopted one boy in , Scott David, then two months old, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and subsequently adopted a girl between and Eddings had completed the first draft of his first published novel, High Hunt , in March while serving his jail term.

Like many of his later novels, it explores themes of manhood and coming of age. Convinced that being an author was his future career, after a short period in Denver, David and Leigh Eddings moved to Spokane , where he again relied on a job at a grocery shop for his funds.

David eddings series

High Hunt was published in early by G. Putnam's Sons to modestly positive reviews. Eddings continued to work on several unpublished novels, including Hunseeker's Ascent , a story about mountain climbing , which was later burned, as Eddings claimed it was "a piece of tripe so bad it even bored me. None were sold or published, with the eventual exception of The Losers , which tells the story of God and the Devil cast in the roles of Raphael Taylor, gifted student and athlete, and Damon Flood, a scoundrel determined to bring Raphael down.