Ed Greenwood

Born in 1959 in Toronto, Canada, the busy fantasy and science fiction writer Ed Greenwood is the creator of The Forgotten Realms® (arguably the largest and most detailed fantasy world-setting ever).  During more than thirty years of unbroken publishing success, the Realms has grown into the top-selling Dungeons & Dragons® product line, with copy sales in the tens of millions worldwide.  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, writer and game designer (his fantasy supplements have won several ORIGINS™ and Gamer's Choice™ awards, and he has been elected to the Gamer's Choice and GAMA Halls of Fame).  His writings have sold millions of copies worldwide in more than a dozen languages. Ed has also been a Guest of Honor at over four dozen conventions worldwide, from Stockholm, Sweden to Melbourne, Australia.

Ed's published fiction includes over twenty-five novels, more than forty short stories, and several bestselling collaborative novels.  Ed also scripts comics and radio plays, write horror, pulp adventure, and Arthurian fantasy, and designs computer games; 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, and Ed's lore was used in over a dozen SSI games and the bestselling BALDUR'S GATE series of games and supplements.  Ed’s work has been nominated for science fiction’s Nebula Award, and he has served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards.

Ed’s Forgotten Realms® novels include the New York Times bestselling SPELLFIRE and ELMINSTER: THE MAKING OF A MAGE, and his current Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy: SWORDS OF EVENINGSTAR, SWORDS OF DRAGONFIRE, and the forthcoming (August 2008) THE SWORD NEVER SLEEPS.

Ed's Band of Four novels for Tor Books, The Kingless Land, The Vacant Throne, A Dragon's Ascension, and The Dragon's Doom were solid bestsellers. Ed revisited the same world of the Band of Four in his multi-generational novel The Silent House.

His newest series, FALCONFAR, is a trilogy about Rod Everlar, a writer who discovers that the fantasy world he writes novels about is very, very real. He also learns that it has been plunged into a war between rival wizards—and that he is considered the Dark Lord; the greatest, most evil wizard of all. Trapped in his world, Rod also discovers that he can’t cast magic at all. The first Falconfar novel, DARK LORD, is a bestseller for Solaris Books, which will publish the second novel in the trilogy, ARCH WIZARD, in the fall of 2008, and the third novel, FALCONFAR, in 2009.

Ed lives in a farmhouse in the countryside of eastern Ontario, Canada, with some 80,000 books. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree (Honors: Journalism) from Ryerson Polytechnic University, is chair of his local library board, and when not writing books can often be found behind the desk at the public library in a nearby town.