Ed Greenwood

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-06

Ed Greenwood is a Canadian fantasy writer and game designer, born July 21, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario. Since 1974 he has worked as a librarian and library clerk at the North York Central Library while writing fiction and game material. He created the Forgotten Realms setting, first describing it in articles for Dragon magazine starting in 1979, and sold the concept to TSR in 1986, leading to the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987). He has authored over thirty-five novels and more than two hundred articles and game products, frequently featuring the wizard Elminster, and also created the Castlemourn campaign setting. He won best player at the 1984 Gen Con AD&D Open tournament. He was inducted into the Gamer's Choice Hall of Fame (1992), the Academy of Adventure Gaming's Hall of Fame (2003), and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Hall of Fame (2022), and received the Order of Cramahe (2017) and a Port Hope Civic Award for Arts & Culture (2019).

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Books

• Spellfire (1988) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Crown of Fire (1994) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Elminster: The Making of a Mage (1994) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• All Shadows Fled (1995) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Cloak of Shadows (1995) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Shadows of Doom (1995) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Cormyr: A Novel (1996) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Stormlight (1996) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Elminster in Myth Drannor (1997) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Diamond (1998) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Mercenaries (1998) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Temptation of Elminster (1998) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Death of the Dragon (2000) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Halls of Stormweather (2000) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Elminster in Hell (2001) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Hand of Fire (2002) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Elminster's Daughter (2004) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The City of Splendors (2005) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Swords of Eveningstar (2006) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Swords of Dragonfire (2007) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Sword Never Sleeps (2008) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Elminster Must Die (2010) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Bury Elminster Deep (2011) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Elminster Enraged (2012) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Herald (2014) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 40 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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