Tracy Hickman

Tracy Raye 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.

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: Dragonlance Chronicles.

Dragonlance

 * Chronicles:
 * Dragons of Autumn Twilight1 (1984)
 * Dragons of Winter Night1 (1985)
 * Dragons of Spring Dawning1 (1985)
 * Dragons of Summer Flame1 (1996)


 * Legends:
 * Time of the Twins1 (1986)
 * War of the Twins1 (1986)
 * Test of the Twins1 (1986)


 * The Second Generation1 (1995)


 * The War of Souls:
 * Dragons of a Fallen Sun1 (2001)
 * Dragons of a Lost Star1 (2002)
 * Dragons of a Vanished Moon1 (2003)


 * The Dark Chronicles:
 * Dragons of the Dwarven Depths1 (2006)
 * Dragons of the Highlord Skie1 (2007)
 * Dragons of the Hourglass Mage1 (2008)

1 (co-author Margaret Weis)

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)

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)

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)

Songs of the Stellar Winds

 * 1) Requiem of the Stars (1996)

Starshield
(co-author Margaret Weis)
 * 1) Starshield: Sentinels (1996)
 * 2) Nightsword (1998)

Sovereign Stone
(co-author Margaret Weis)
 * 1) Well of Darkness (2000)
 * 2) Guardians of the Lost (2001)
 * 3) Journey into the Void (2003)

Bronze Canticles
(co-author Laura Hickman)
 * 1) Mystic Warrior (2004)
 * 2) Mystic Quest (2005)
 * 3) Mystic Empire (2006)

Other novels

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