Tracy Hickman

Tracy HickmanTracy Hickman (born November 26, 1955) is a best-selling fantasy author, most commonly known for his work on Dragonlance as a game designer and co-author with Margaret Weis, while he worked for TSR. They also wrote the Dark Sword trilogy, the Death Gate Cycle, and the Sovereign Stone trilogy. Tracy Hickman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. He married Laura Curtis in 1977 and together they have four children.

Tracy and Laura have been publishing game designs together for over twenty-five years including the popular and innovative Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Ravenloft module. They published their first joint novel, Mystic Warrior, in 2004. Tracy and Laura have been producing their DragonHearth podcast since December of 2005.

Tracy Hickman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on November 26, 1955. He graduated from Provo High School in 1974 where his major interests were in drama, music, and Air Force JROTC. In 1975, Tracy began two years of service as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. His initial posting was for six months in Hawaii before his visa was approved, and he moved on to his final calling in Indonesia.

There, Tracy Hickman served as a missionary in Surabaya, Djakarta, and the mountain city of Bandung before being released honorably in 1977. As a result, Tracy can still speak conversational Indonesian and occasionally bases his magical phrases on that language. Tracy married his high school sweetheart, Laura Curtis, within four months of his return to the United States. They are the parents of four children: Angel, Curtis, Tasha, and Jarod.

Tracy Hickman has worked as a supermarket stock boy, a movie projectionist, a theater manager, a glass worker, a television assistant director, and a drill press operator in a genealogy center. It was in 1981 -- between jobs and wanting to buy shoes for his children -- that he approached TSR about buying two of his modules and ended up with a job instead. That job led to his association with Margaret Weis and their first publication together: Dragonlance Chronicles.

Selected Bibliography

Series

  • Bronze Canticles
    • 1 Mystic Warrior (2004) with Laura Hickman
    • 2 Mystic Quest (2005) with Laura Hickman
    • 3 Mystic Empire (2006) with Laura Hickman
  • Darksword
    • Forging the Darksword (1988) with Margaret Weis
    • Doom of the Darksword (1988) with Margaret Weis
    • Triumph of the Darksword (1988) with Margaret Weis
    • Legacy of the Darksword (1997) with Margaret Weis
  • Deathgate Cycle
    • Dragon Wing (1990) with Margaret Weis
    • Elven Star (1990) with Margaret Weis
    • Fire Sea (1991) with Margaret Weis
    • Serpent Mage (1992) with Margaret Weis
    • The Hand of Chaos (1993) with Margaret Weis
    • Into the Labyrinth (1993) with Margaret Weis
    • The Seventh Gate (1994) with Margaret Weis
  • Dragonlance
    • Dragonlance Chronicles
      • 1 Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984) with Margaret Weis
      • 2 Dragons of Winter Night (1985) with Margaret Weis
      • 3 Dragons of Spring Dawning (1985) with Margaret Weis
      • 4 Dragons of Summer Flame (1995) with Margaret Weis
    • Dragonlance Legends
      • 1 Time of the Twins (1986) with Margaret Weis
      • 2 War of the Twins (1986) with Margaret Weis
      • 3 Test of the Twins (1986) with Margaret Weis
    • Dragonlance Second Generation
      • The Second Generation (1994) with Margaret Weis
    • Dragonlance: Dragons
      • 1 The Dragons of Krynn (1994) with Margaret Weis
      • 2 Dragons at War (1996) with Margaret Weis
    • Dragonlance: Fifth Age
      • Heroes and Fools (1998) with Margaret Weis
      • Rebels and Tyrants (2000) with Margaret Weis
    • Dragonlance: Tales
      • 1 The Magic of Krynn (1987) with Margaret Weis
      • 2 Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes (1987) with Margaret Weis
      • 3 Love and War (1987) with Margaret Weis
    • Dragonlance: Tales II
      • 1 The Reign of Istar (1992) with Richard A. Knaak and Michael Williams and Margaret Weis
      • 2 The Cataclysm (1992) with Margaret Weis and Roger E. Moore and Nancy Varian Berberick
      • 3 The War of the Lance (1992) with Margaret Weis
    • The War of Souls
      • 1 Dragons of a Fallen Sun (2000) with Margaret Weis
      • 2 Dragons of a Lost Star (2001) with Margaret Weis
      • 3 Dragons of a Vanished Moon (2002) with Margaret Weis
  • Rose of the Prophet
    • The Will of the Wanderer (1989) with Margaret Weis
    • The Paladin of the Night (1989) with Margaret Weis
    • The Prophet of Akhran (1989) with Margaret Weis

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