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Raymond E. Feist
b. 1945·American
Raymond E. Feist is an American epic fantasy author born on December 21, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, who built the foundation for his fiction from a role-playing game he and his college friends developed at UC San Diego. He is best known for The Riftwar Saga and the broader Riftwar Cycle, a sprawling multi-novel series set in the interconnected worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan that began with his debut novel Magician in 1982.