Ed Greenwood

Born in 1959 in what is now Toronto, Ed Greenwood is an avid fantasy and science fiction writer, collector, and reader, whose main claim to fame is his creation of The Forgotten Realms® (arguably the largest and most detailed fantasy world-setting ever).  Ed has been writing about the Realms since the winter of 1967-68, and it has grown into the best-selling Dungeons & Dragons® product line, with copy sales in the tens of millions.  Ed has been hailed as "the Canadian author of the great American novel" (J. Robert King), "an industry legend" (DRAGON® Magazine), and "one of the greats"(GAMES Magazine).  Ed is an award-winning gamer (Best Player, 1984 GenCon® AD&D® Open tournament), writer and game designer (his fantasy supplements have won several ORIGINS™ and Gamer's Choice™ awards, and in 1992 he was elected to the Gamer's Choice Hall of Fame).  His writings have sold millions of copies worldwide in more than a dozen languages. Ed has been a guest of honor at over three dozen conventions from Stockholm, Sweden to Melbourne, Australia.

Ed's published fiction includes over a dozen novels, over thirty short stories, and several bestselling collaborative novels.  Computer game enthusiasts will find Ed's short story "Moonrise Over Myth Drannor" in the MYTH DRANNOR™ Forgotten Realms computer game from SSI, Inc., and his short story "Living Forever" in the POOLS OF RADIANCE II: RUINS OD THE MYTH DRANNOR computer game from Mattel Interactive/The Learning Company/Broderbund.  Ed was one of the writers of the classic Interplay computer game THE TWO TOWERS, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS.  Ed's lore was used in over a dozen SSI games and the bestselling BALDUR'S GATE. TALES OF THE SWORD COAST, and BALDUR'S GATE II games and supplements from Interpplay/Black Isle/BioWare.  Almost all of the Forgotten Realms game and fiction products, from comics.

Ed's Band of Four novels for Tor Books, The Kingless Land, The Vacant Throne, A Dragon's Ascension, and The Dragon's Doom are solid bestsellers, with a new novel, set in the same world, The Silent House, due out in 2004. 

His newest series, FALCONFAR, is a trilogy about Rod Everlar, a writer who brings to life the world that he encounters in his dreams.  When the characters of his novel approach him for help, Everlar is faced with a challenging question—can he remain the distant author, or must he inevitably interfere on behalf of the creatures of Falconfar and become a character in his own stories?

Ed grew up in North York, Ontario, Canada, holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree (Honors: Journalism) from Ryerson Polytechnic University, and lives on a farm near Cobourg, Ontario—with (among other things), well over 40,000 books.