Tracy Hickman

Tracy Hickman is one of the people who genuinely shaped how fantasy reaches readers. With Margaret Weis he turned a tabletop campaign into the Dragonlance novels, doing something I find quietly revolutionary: dissolving the wall between playing a story and reading one. Add his game design work at TSR, the books co-written with his wife Laura, and a catalogue of over sixty titles, and you have a career built on collaboration rather than the lone-genius myth. I respect creators who keep partners at the center of their work. Hickman essentially showed a generation that the games on our table could become the books on our shelves.

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Name (English)

Tracy Hickman

Name (Japanese)

トレイシー・ヒックマン

Reading

とれいしー・ひっくまん

Born

November 26, 1955 (age 70)

Origin

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / science fiction writer / game designer / role-playing game designer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

High school

Provo High School

University

Brigham Young University

Awards & achievements

• 2015 Whitney Awards

• Official sitehttps://www.trhickman.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Hickman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353137

Tags

• Utah
• writer
• novelist
• science fiction writer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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