Richard A. Knaak

Richard A. Knaak is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy novels.

Biography
Knaak attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying rhetoric, and earned a bachelor's degree.

After reading Andre Norton's Storm over Warlock, he eventually sold his first short story in 1986, and it was published in 1987. He has listed several of his influences, and even a few of his favorite fellow authors, those being Edgar Allan Poe, Robert E. Howard, Glen Cook, L. Sprague de Camp, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Harry Turtledove, Jennifer Roberson, Laurell K. Hamilton, Harry Harrison, and Robert Sawyer.

He splits living in Illinois and Arkansas.