30 Facts About Tracy Hickman

Tracy Raye Hickman was born on November 26,1955 and is an American fantasy author and designer of games and virtual reality experiences.

Tracy Hickman co-authored the original Dragonlance novels with Margaret Weis as well as numerous other books.

Tracy Hickman designed and created role playing game material while working for TSR and has cowritten novels with his wife, Laura Hickman.

Tracy Hickman is the author or co-author of over 60 books.

Tracy Hickman was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Tracy Hickman's parents instilled in him a love of reading; he recalls visiting the local bookmobile with them.

In 1975, Tracy Hickman began two years of service as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Tracy Hickman served in Hawaii for six months while awaiting visa approval for travel to Indonesia, where he served in Surabaya, Djakarta, and the mountain city of Bandung until 1977.

Tracy Hickman gave him the game that year for his birthday.

Tracy Hickman had many jobs before joining TSR, Inc in 1982, including working as a supermarket stocker, a movie projectionist, a theater manager, a glass worker, a television assistant director, and a drill press operator in a genealogy center.

In 1981, Tracy entered into a business arrangement to produce an arcade immersion game, but his associate disappeared, leaving the Hickmans with $30,000 in debt.

Tracy Hickman approached TSR with the modules Rahasia and Pharaoh, "literally so that I could buy shoes for my children".

Harold Johnson was the first to join the project and brought it to upper management, and talked Tracy Hickman into expanding further upon his idea of only a trilogy of three adventures.

Tracy Hickman's proposal resulted in the Dragonlance Chronicles, which led to his association with Margaret Weis.

Tracy Hickman has published more than 30 novels with Margaret Weis.

Weis and Tracy Hickman later returned to TSR to write more new fiction, although TSR turned their intended trilogy into a single novel, Dragons of Summer Flame, published in 1995.

Tracy Hickman was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in 2002, recognized in part for "one game line turned literary sensation: Dragonlance".

Tracy and Laura Hickman wrote the adventure Out in the Black for the Serenity Role Playing Game for Margaret Weis Productions.

In 2009, Tracy Hickman released XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery, a guide for DMs based on his years of experience in the trade.

Tracy Hickman then released two new fantasy series: the four-book Dragonships of Vindras series, and the three-book Annals of Drakis series.

Tracy Hickman has said that Eventide was his favorite project to work on.

Tracy and Laura Hickman produced their DragonHearth podcast until about December 2010.

Tracy Hickman founded the Parsec Awards alongside Mur Lafferty and Michael Mennenga in 2006.

Tracy Hickman wrote the screenplay for, produced, and edited the first science-fiction film shot completely in space, Apogee of Fear.

On March 15,2013, Tracy Hickman joined Richard Garriott's team as lead story designer for Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues.

On March 16,2016, Tracy Hickman announced that he had become the Director of Story Development at The Void, a virtual reality gaming experience franchise, working with his son Curtis in designing interactive adventures.

Tracy Hickman married Laura Curtis in 1977, and together they have four children.

Tracy and Laura Hickman have appeared together at multiple conferences and conventions, including the Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers conference.

On his website Tracy Hickman states that he is a devout member of the LDS Church.

Tracy Hickman has said that his faith often inspires his work.