Christopher Paolini
American fantasy author; began Eragon and the Inheritance Cycle at 15.
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- Christopher Paolini is an American author best known for the Inheritance Cycle: Eragon (2002), Eldest, Brisingr and Inheritance.
- He began Eragon at 15; his parents' company published it first, and Knopf republished it in 2003.
- His science fiction novel To Sleep in a Sea of Stars came out in 2020, and Murtagh returned to the Inheritance world in 2023.
Key facts
- Born
- 17 November 1983, Los Angeles; raised in Paradise Valley, Montana1
- Books
- Eragon (2002); Eldest (2005); Brisingr (2008); Inheritance (2011); The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm (2018); To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (2020); Fractal Noise (2023); Murtagh (2023)1
- Sales
- The Inheritance Cycle has sold more than 41 million copies1
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