Brandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in Provo, Utah. Sanderson has twice been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award. After Robert Jordan's death, Brandon Sanderson was selected by Harriet McDougal (Robert Jordan's widow) to complete the final book in Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. Harriet asked him to complete the series after being deeply impressed by Mistborn: The Final Empire. On March 30, 2009, it was announced that A Memory of Light, originally slated to be the final book in the Wheel of Time series, will be split into three volumes. The first, The Gathering Storm, will be released on October 27, 2009, with the remaining novels, named Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Light, tentatively following in November 2010 and November 2011.