Rides a Dread Legion

Raymond Elias Feist (born Raymond Elias Gonzales III, December 21, 1945) is an American fantasy author, best known for the Riftwar Cycle, a long run of novels set on the worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan. He took the surname of his stepfather, the film director Felix E. Feist, after his mother remarried. He grew up in Southern California and graduated with honors from the University of California, San Diego, in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Arts. The Riftwar world began at university, where Fe...