Tracy Hickman

5 universes Last reviewed 2026-09-23

Tracy Hickman is an American author and game designer born November 26, 1955, in Salt Lake City, Utah, who graduated from Provo High School in 1977 and attended Brigham Young University, where he has said he nearly failed his own creative writing course. He served an LDS mission in Hawaii and Indonesia from 1975 to 1977 and held various jobs, including supermarket stocker, movie projectionist, theater manager, and drill press operator, before joining TSR, Inc. in 1982. At TSR he designed the acclaimed Ravenloft module (1983) and the Desert of Desolation module series, and co-authored the original Dragonlance Chronicles with Margaret Weis, work that helped establish the Dragonlance setting as one of the best-selling franchises in fantasy gaming fiction. He left TSR in 1987 and has since authored or co-authored more than sixty books spanning fantasy, science fiction, and tabletop gaming, including the solo novel The Immortals (1996) and numerous projects co-written with his wife, Laura Curtis Hickman, whom he married in 1977. In 2002 he was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame for Dragonlance's impact on the industry, and in 1999 Pyramid magazine named him among the millennium's most influential figures in gaming fiction. He resides in St. George, Utah, and remains active in the LDS Church.

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Books

• Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Dragons of Spring Dawning (1985) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Dragons of Winter Night (1985) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Test of the Twins (1986) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Time of the Twins (1986) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• War of the Twins (1986) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Forging the Darksword (1987) · The Darksword Trilogy Core Canon
• Doom of the Darksword (1988) · The Darksword Trilogy Core Canon
• The Will of the Wanderer (1988) · Rose of the Prophet Core Canon
• Triumph of the Darksword (1988) · The Darksword Trilogy Core Canon
• The Paladin of the Night (1989) · Rose of the Prophet Core Canon
• The Prophet of Akhran (1989) · Rose of the Prophet Core Canon
• Dragon Wing (1990) · The Death Gate Cycle Core Canon
• Elven Star (1990) · The Death Gate Cycle Core Canon
• Fire Sea (1991) · The Death Gate Cycle Core Canon
• Serpent Mage (1992) · The Death Gate Cycle Core Canon
• The Cataclysm (1992) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• The Reign of Istar (1992) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• The War of the Lance (1992) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Into the Labyrinth (1993) · The Death Gate Cycle Core Canon
• The Hand of Chaos (1993) · The Death Gate Cycle Core Canon
• The Dragons of Krynn (1994) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• The Second Generation (1994) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• The Seventh Gate (1994) · The Death Gate Cycle Core Canon
• Dragons of Summer Flame (1995) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Relics and Omens (1996) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• The Dragons at War (1998) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Heroes and Fools (1999) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Dragons of a Fallen Sun (2000) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Rebels and Tyrants (2000) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Well of Darkness (2000) · Sovereign Stone Trilogy Core Canon
• Dragons of a Lost Star (2001) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Guardians of the Lost (2001) · Sovereign Stone Trilogy Core Canon
• The Dragons of Chaos (2001) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Dragons of a Vanished Moon (2002) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Journey into the Void (2003) · Sovereign Stone Trilogy Core Canon
• Dragons of the Dwarven Depths (2006) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Dragons of Time (2007) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Dragons of the Highlord Skies (2007) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Dragons of the Hourglass Mage (2009) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Dragons of Deceit (2022) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Dragons of Fate (2023) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• Dragons of Eternity (2024) · Dragonlance Core Canon
• War Wizard (2026) · Dragonlance Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

These are separate, unrelated universes; the totals below are plain sums of already-published per-universe facts, never a blended or averaged score across them. See each universe's own figures above.

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 33 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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