Michael Williams is an American author. He is known as an author of ''Dragonlance'' novels.

Biography

Williams was born and lives in

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, Ireland and England. Between 1983 and 1984, approximately 200 people left TSR as a result of mutilple rounds of layoffs; as a result Williams joined CEO John Rickets, as well as

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, Andria Hayday, Gaye Goldsberry O'Keefe, Gali Sanchez,

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, Carl Smith, and

Stephen D. Sullivan Stephen D. Sullivan is an American author and artist. Career Sullivan taught a course in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' at MIT the first of its kind in the country. Sullivan worked for TSR as a writer and artist. Sullivan joined CEO John Rickets, Ma ...

in forming the game company Pacesetter on January 23, 1984. His first novel, ''Weasel's Luck'', was published in 1988, followed by ''Galen Beknighted'' (1990), ''Arcady'' (1996), ''Allamanda'' (1997), ''Trajan's Arch'' (2010) and ''Vine: An Urban Legend'' (2012). His novel ''Dominic's Ghosts'' was published through Seventh Star Press in August 2018 followed by a re-issue of ''Vine: An Urban Legend'' in October 2018.

Novels

Original works

From Thief To King

* ''A Sorcerer's Apprentice'' (1990) – * ''A Forest Lord'' (1991) – * ''The Balance of Power'' (1992) –

City Quartet

* ''Trajan's Arch'' (2010) – * ''Vine: An Urban Legend'' (2012) – * ''Dominic's Ghosts'' (2018) – * ''Tattered Men'' (2019) –

Arcady

* ''Arcady'' (1996) – * ''Allamanda'' (1997) –

Franchise

''Dragonlance'' novels

* ''Dragonlance Heroes Vol 3: Weasel's Luck'' (1988) – * ''Dragonlance Heroes Vol 3, II: Galen Beknighted'' (1990) – * ''Dragonlance Meetings 4: The Oath and the Measure'' (1992) – , sequel to the previous two novels. * ''Dragonlance Villains Vol 1: Before the Mask'' (1993) – * ''Dragonlance Villains Vol 6: The Dark Queen'' (1994) –

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* * 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American novelists American fantasy writers American male novelists Living people Novelists from Kentucky Writers from Louisville, Kentucky Year of birth missing (living people) {{Louisville-stub