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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 of 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 Interplay/Black Isle/BioWare.? Almost all of the Forgotten Realms game and fiction products, from comics (from TSR, Inc. and two long-running series published by DC Comics, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms; Ed appeared as himself in three issues) to computer games, are based on Ed’s suggestions and lore-notes or his direct work as a “behind-the-scenes consultant.”? Ed is currently assisting in the preparation of a Forgotten Realms television series.
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.? Most recently, he has signed a deal with Wizards of the Coast to write five more new Forgotten Realms novels.
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.
Hi,
My freind and myself have Played forgotten realms for quite a few years. Some of our characters are Hellriders from Elturel area. We would like to contact Mr. Greenwood to see if he had any other info on them that has not been published.
Thanks to him for years and years of enjoyment.
Rod
Ed,
You will see a online copy of my resume soon.. Reading about Elmister and the rest of the Forgotten Realms stories from most of the old and new authors, though I still have more than 10 Realms books that I have yet to catch up on. I want to recreate D&D the Cartoon in FR. That is my pitch.