Stephen R. Donaldson

Stephen R. Donaldson, born in 1947, is an American novelist who writes fantasy, science fiction and mystery. He is best known for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a ten-novel fantasy series that opens with Lord Foul's Bane and continues through The Illearth War and The Power That Preserves. The second run of the series, The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, includes The Wounded Land, The One Tree and White Gold Wielder, and Donaldson's fiction is known for its psychological depth and bleak moral edges.