Terry Goodkind

Not too much to say about Terry Goodkind. To my knowledge, he's only written five books: Wizard's First Rule, Stone of Tears, Blood of the Fold, Temple of the Winds, and Soul of the Fire. These five make up his The Sword of Truth series, which happens to be very, very long, but very, very good. Just to give you an idea of how long these books are, the shortest one is 623 pages long. But it's worth it--they're all great books.