Editing Terry Goodkind (section)

==Personal life and death==
In 1983, Goodkind moved with his wife to a house he built in Maine. In 1993 they built a house on the forested [[Mount Desert Island]] off the coast of [[Maine]] where he wrote his first book, [[Wizard's First Rule]]. Later, they made their home on the coast of [[Lake Las Vegas]], Nevada, their primary residence.<ref name = Vegas/>

Goodkind competed in various forms of amateur and semi-professional auto racing, and drove a [[Radical Sportscars|Radical]] SR8 SM-500 race car for his own Rahl Racing team.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}

Goodkind died on September 17, 2020, at his home in [[Boulder City, Nevada]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-17|title=Terry Goodkind (1948-2020)|url=https://locusmag.com/2020/09/terry-goodkind-1948-2020/|access-date=2020-09-20|website=Locus Online|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kurutz |first=Steven |date=2020-10-02 |title=Terry Goodkind, Master of Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 72 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/books/terry-goodkind-dead.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The cause of death was not released. Terry is survived by his wife Jeri.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Visser|first=Nick|date=2020-09-18|title=Bestselling Fantasy Author Terry Goodkind Dies|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/terry-goodkind-dead_n_5f6432abc5b6b9795b0df8cb|access-date=2020-09-20|website=HuffPost|language=en}}</ref>