Tad Williams
| Tad Williams | |
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| Born |
March 14, 1957 San Jose, California |
| Occupation | Storyteller, novelist, short story writer, comics writer and essayist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Post-modernism;Fantasy, High Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Science Fiction, horror |
| Notable works | Tailchaser's Song, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (epic fantasy series), Otherland (science fiction/fantasy series), Shadowmarch (epic fantasy series), and The Bobby Dollar Books (urban noir fantasy series) |
| Spouse | Deborah Beale |
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Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born 14 March 1957 in San Jose, California) is the American international bestselling fantasy and science fiction author of the multivolume Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, Otherland series, and Shadowmarch series as well as the standalone novels Tailchaser's Song and The War of the Flowers. Most recently, Williams published The Bobby Dollar series. Cumulatively, over 17 million copies of Williams' works have been sold.
Williams’ work in comics includes a six issue mini-series for DC Comics called The Next. He also wrote Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis issue #50 to #57. Other comic work includes Mirrorworld: Rain and The Helmet of Fate: Ibis the Invincible #1 (DC).
Williams is collaborating on a series of young-adult books with his wife, Deborah Beale, called The Ordinary Farm Adventures. The first two books in the series are The Dragons of Ordinary Farm and The Secrets of Ordinary Farm.
Robert Paul “Tad” Williams was born in San Jose, California on March 14, 1957. He grew up in Palo Alto, the town that grew up around Stanford University. He attended Palo Alto Senior High School. His family was close, and he and his brothers were always encouraged in their creativity. His mother gave him the nickname “Tad” after the young characters in Walt Kelly’s comic strip Pogo The semi-autobiographical character Pogo Cashman, who appears in some of his stories, is a reference to the nickname.
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