How much is Brandon Sanderson worth?
| Net Worth: | $2 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Author |
| Date of Birth: | December 19, 1975 (age 47) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 8 in (1.75 m) |
About Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson is an American author, book editor, director, novelist, and YouTuber personality. He is best known for his epic fantasy and science fiction books. Among some of his best-selling works are the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive. He has written more than twenty books that have brought him commercial and critical success as well as many awards, including Goodreads, World Science Fiction Society, and Whitney Awards.
The writer of The Wheel of Time became a millionaire from his many books and videos on YouTube. Throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies, Brandon wrote consistently and by 2003, he had written more than ten novels. One of his first books that rose to national popularity was Elantris from April 2005. Later that year, he began working on his Mistborn fantasy trilogy. The original trilogy consists of The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages, published in 2006, 2007, and 2008 respectively.
Brandon Sanderson became famous after he created his epic-length Cosmere fictional universe and series. He was born on December 19, 1975, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He has three younger siblings – Jordan, Jane, and Lauren. Growing up, when he was a teenager, he was a passionate reader of epic dramas and high fantasies.
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, he made several early attempts to write his own stories. Shortly after his high school graduation, he entered the BYU (Brigham Young University) where he was major in biochemistry. From 1995 to 1997, he took a two-year leave and served as a volunteer missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After spending several years in South Korea as a missionary, he returned to the university and changed his major to the English language.
While he was an undergraduate, he took a job as a night desk clerk at a local hotel in Utah. One of his roommates there was Ken Jennings that became famous a few years later for his 74-game win streak at the show Jeopardy. In the year 2000, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and continued as a graduate student. In 2004, he earned his Master’s degree in English with an emphasis on creative writing. At the time of his graduation, he began working at the Leading Edge, a professional speculative fiction magazine.
After the success of his original trilogy, he decided to follow it up with the Wax and Wayne series. The first of three books were released in November 2011 – The Alloy of Law. The other two books of that series were published in January 2016 – Shadows of Self and The Bands of Mourning. From all of his critically acclaimed best-selling books, by the beginning of 2010, Brandon Sanderson was able to earn an estimated $3 million revenue thanks to their sales and commercials. At the time his writing career hit its peak, in early January 2012, he created his own YouTube channel from which he now receives approximately as much as an estimated $350-6000,000 annually from advertisements and from the successful promotions of his many books.
Over the course of his writing career, Sanderson has written many best-sellers. He is the creator of the Cosmere fictional universe, which is where his Elantris, Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, and White Sand are all set. The formula of success that Sanderson has is made of hard magic and soft magic, which happens to be the most common theme in all of his projects. Outside of filming YouTube videos and writing books, the best-selling author is a well-known teacher. He is adjunct faculty at the Brigham Young University, where he is teaching creative writing courses once per year. He also participated in the weekly podcast Writing Excuses alongside other authors.
The success of Sanderson comes from his many best-selling novels, with the most notable being Elantris, Warbreaker, The Way of Kings, Oathbringer, and Rhythm of War. Apart from writing, since 2012 he has been consistently publishing videos on his YouTube channel. On the video-sharing platform, he has uploaded over 130 videos most of which lectures, writing tutorials, and live signing sessions. His most-watched videos have over 250,000 views and combined, they make 7 million.
Summing-Up
Brandon Sanderson is famous for writing stories of the fantastic, specifically fantasies, science fiction, and thrillers. From his many best-sellers and different professions, the author and teacher has earned millions.
