David Eddings

David (Carrol) Eddings was born on 7th of July 1931 in Spokane, Washington. He grew up near Seattle, in the Puget Sound area. October 27th 1962 he married Judith Leigh Schall.

David Eddings worked a period as a sales clerk at Boeing Co. He has also worked as an English teacher at college. David Eddings served in the US Army during the years 1954-1956.

David and Leigh Eddings live in the Southwest.

David Eddings once wrote the following about himself:
'My current excursion into fantasy has given me an opportunity to test my technical theories [on writing]. I made a world that never was, with an unlikely theology splattered against an improbable geology. My magic is at best a kind of pragmatic cop--out. Many of my explanations of how magic is supposed to work are absurdities - but my characters all accept these explanations as if there was no quibbling about them, and if the characters believe, then the readers seem also to believe. Maybe that's the "real" magic. That's the basic formula for fantasy. Take a bit of magic, mix well with a few open-ended Jungian archetypal myths, make your people sweat and smell and get hungry at inopportune moments, throw in a ponderous prehistory, and let nature take it's course.

 
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BELGARIAD RELATED
The Rivan Codex

THE BELGARIAD
Pawn of Prophesy
Queen of Sorcery
Magician's Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanter's End Game

THE BELGARIAD PREQUELS
Belgarath the Sorcerer
Polgara the Sorceress

THE DREAMERS
The Elder Gods
The Treasured One
The Crystal Gorge

THE ELENIUM
The Diamond Throne
The Ruby Knight
The Sapphire Rose

THE MALLOREON
Guardians of the West
King of the Murgos
Demon Lord of Karanda
Sorceress of Darshiva
The Seeress of Kell

THE TAMULI
Domes of Fire
The Shining Ones
The Hidden City

STAND ALONE NOVELS
The Redemption of Althalus