Margaret Weis
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Margaret Weis (seated) with Tracy Hickman at Gen Con Indy 2008
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March 16, 1948 Independence, Missouri, USA |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1984–present |
| Genre | Fantasy, science fiction |
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Margaret Edith Weis (born March 16, 1948) is a fantasy and science fiction writer and author of dozens of novels and short stories. Along with Tracy Hickman, Weis is one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world.
Margaret Weis was born on March 16, 1948, in Independence, Missouri. She discovered heroic fantasy fiction while studying at the University of Missouri (MU). "I read Tolkien when it made its first big sweep in the colleges back in 1966," she said. "A girlfriend of mine gave me a copy of the books while I was in summer school at MU. I literally couldn't put them down! I never found any other fantasy I liked, and just never read any fantasy after Tolkien."
Weis graduated from MU in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in creative writing and literature.
Weis first worked for a small publishing company in Independence, where she became an editor. From 1972 to 1983 she worked for Herald Publishing House as advertising director and subsequently as director of Independence Press, Herald Publishing's trade division from 1981 to 1983.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Weis wrote children's books about computer graphics, robots, the history of Thanksgiving, the outlaws Frank and Jesse James, and an adventure book at a second-grade reading level for prisoners with low literacy levels.
In 1983 Weis applied for a job as a games editor at TSR, Inc. that she saw advertised in Publishers Weekly. TSR turned her down for that position, but hired her as a book editor. She worked in TSR's book division until 1986.
One of her first assignments was to help coordinate, along with TSR colleague Tracy Hickman, "Project Overlord," which was to include a novel and three AD&D modules. Weis and Hickman plotted the novel and hired an author, who didn't work out. "By that time," said Weis, "[Hickman] and I were so into the project that we felt we had to write it."
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