Tad Williams biography

Tad Williams has held more jobs than any sane person should admit to—singing in a band, selling shoes, managing a financial institution, throwing newspapers, and designing military manuals, to name just a few. He also hosted a syndicated radio show for ten years, worked in theater and television production, taught both grade-school and college classes, and worked in multimedia for a major computer firm. He is cofounder of an interactive television company, and is currently writing comic books and film and television scripts as well as novels.

Tad and his wife, Deborah Beale, live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their children and far more cats, dogs, turtles, pet ants and banana slugs than they can count.

"I am deliriously grateful every day that I get to do what I want to do for a living. Whenever the pressures of work and life start to make me cranky, I just remind myself of managing the art store next to the freeway (the owner was Basil Fawlty without Basil's good qualities, i.e. wit)"

Tad Williams books

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

• The Dragonbone Chair - 1988
• Stone of Farewell - 1990
• To Green Angel Tower - 1993

Otherland

• City of Golden Shadow - 1996
• River of Blue Fire - 1998
• Mountain of Black Glass - 1999
• Sea of Silver Light - 2001

Shadowmarch

• Shadowmarch - 2006
• Shadowplay - 2007
• Shadowrise - TBA

Tailchaser's Song - 1985

Tad Williams interviews

An interview with Tad Williams at SFFWorld.com in which he talks about his Otherland series and how some of the events in his books have now occured in real-life.
Tad Williams interview

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