March 2009 Archives

The Hyde Library welcomes author Jonathan Rogers to our campus on Wednesday, March 25. He’ll speak in chapel and then sign copies of his books at 10:45 a.m. and during both upper and lower school lunch periods in the Wunderlich Auditorium.  Rogers is the author of  the Wilderking fantasy trilogy, and his books have been compared to C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia.  He has also written about C.S. Lewis in his book titled The World According to Narnia.

Jonathan Rogers spent his childhood in the swamps of Georgia, which gave him the material he used in his Wilderking trilogy. He received his undergraduate degree from Furman University and earned a Ph.D. in seventeenth-century English literature from Vanderbilt University. 

 

His Wilderking trilogy includes The Bark of the Bog Owl, The Secret of the Swamp King, and The Way of the Wilderking.  The main character is Aidan Errolson, a boy who finds out it is his destiny to become the wilderking of Corenwald.  The Wilderking was prophesied to be a wild man who would come from the swamps to set things right in the island kingdom.  Rogers based his trilogy on the Biblical story of King David. 

 

For more information on Jonathan Rogers and his fantasy world, check out his website (http://www.wilderking.com/) and his blog (http://wilderking.blogspot.com/)