Tracy Hickman

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Tracy Raye Hickman

Tracy Hickman at Dragon Con 2006.
Born:	November 26, 1955 Salt Lake City, Utah
Occupation:	Novelist
Nationality:	United States of America
Writing period:	1984-Present
Genres:	Fantasy Fiction
Debut works:	Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Website:	http://www.trhickman.com/
Tracy Hickman has written many novels with fellow fantasy fiction writer Margaret Weis.

Tracy Raye Hickman (born November 26, 1955) is a best-selling fantasy author, best 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.

Contents 1 Bio 2 Bibliography 2.1 Dragonlance 2.2 Dark Sword 2.3 Rose of the Prophet 2.4 Death Gate Cycle 2.5 Songs of the Stellar Winds 2.6 Starshield 2.7 Sovereign Stone 2.8 Bronze Canticles 2.9 Other novels 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Bio

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, he 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 has worked as a supermarket stockboy, 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: the Dragonlance Chronicles.

On his personal website, Hickman states that he continues to be an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and resides in St. George, Utah.[1]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Dragonlance

Main article: Dragonlance

• Chronicles:
  1. Dragons of Autumn Twilight¹ (1984)
  2. Dragons of Winter Night¹ (1985)
  3. Dragons of Spring Dawning¹ (1985)

• Legends:
  1. Time of the Twins¹ (1986)
  2. War of the Twins¹ (1986)
  3. Test of the Twins¹ (1986)

• Dragonlance: The Second Generation¹ (1995)

• 1. Dragons of Summer Flame¹ (1996)

• The War of Souls:
  1. Dragons of a Fallen Sun¹ (2001)
  2. Dragons of a Lost Star¹ (2002)
  3. Dragons of a Vanished Moon¹ (2003)

• The Lost Chronicles:
  1. Dragons of the Dwarven Depths¹ (2006)
  2. Dragons of the Highlord Skie¹ (2007)
  3. Dragons of the Hourglass Mage¹ (2008)

¹ (co-author Margaret Weis)

[edit] Dark Sword

Main article: Dark Sword

(co-author Margaret Weis)

1. Forging the Darksword (1987)
2. Doom of the Darksword (1988)
3. Triumph of the Darksword (1988)
4. Legacy of the Darksword (1997)

[edit] Rose of the Prophet

Main article: Rose of the Prophet

(co-author Margaret Weis)

1. The Will of the Wanderer (1988)
2. Paladin of the Night (1989)
3. The Prophet of Akhran (1989)

[edit] Death Gate Cycle

Main article: Death Gate Cycle

(co-author Margaret Weis)

1. Dragon Wing (1990)
2. Elven Star (1991)
3. Fire Sea (1992)
4. Serpent Mage (1993)
5. The Hand of Chaos (1993)
6. Into the Labyrinth (1994)
7. The Seventh Gate (1995)

[edit] Songs of the Stellar Winds

Main article: Songs of the Stellar Winds

1. Requiem of the Stars (1996)

[edit] Starshield

Main article: Starshield

(co-author Margaret Weis)

1. Starshield: Sentinels (1996)
2. Nightsword (1998)

[edit] Sovereign Stone

Main article: Sovereign Stone

(co-author Margaret Weis)

1. Well of Darkness (2000)
2. Guardians of the Lost (2001)
3. Journey into the Void (2003)

[edit] Bronze Canticles

Main article: Bronze Canticles

(co-author Laura Hickman)

1. Mystic Warrior (2004)
2. Mystic Quest (2005)
3. Mystic Empire (2006)

[edit] Other novels

1. The Immortals (1996)
2. Starcraft: Speed of Darkness (2002)

[edit] References

• Varney, Allen (1998-08). "Profiles: Tracy Hickman". Dragon #250 XIII (3): 120. 

[edit] External links

• Tracy's official website
• Tracy & Laura Hickman's DragonHearth podcast site.
• Interview with Tracy Hickman at SFFWorld
• Tracy Hickman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database