Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher
Author • Narrator • Editorb. 26 October 1971 · From United States- Books
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Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971, in Independence, Missouri) is an American author best known for The Dresden Files, a long-running urban fantasy series following wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden. He also wrote the six-book Codex Alera series and the steampunk-inspired Cinder Spires series. Butcher wrote the first Dresden Files novel, Storm Front, as an exercise for a writing course in 1996, at age 25. He now lives in the mountains outside Denver, Colorado.
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Fantasy Urban Fantasy Fiction Mystery Paranormal
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The Dresden Files series is best read in publication order to follow the continuous storyline and character development. While each book has a self-contained mystery, overarching plots progress throughout the series.
Jim Butcher is known for writing under his own name and does not use other pen names for his published works.
The Dresden Files series was adapted into a television show, which aired for one season.
Jim Butcher is most widely recognized for his urban fantasy series, The Dresden Files, which features a wizard detective in modern-day Chicago.