Robin Hobb biography Robin Hobb is a US fantasy writer, best known for her trilogies set in The Realm of the Elderlings. Readers were first introduced to that world with the publication of Assassin’s Apprentice, the first volume of The Farseer Trilogy, in The story is told in the first person from the point of view of FitzChivalry Farseer, an illegitimate scion of the royal family.