Margaret Edith Weis is a fantasy novel writer who, along with Tracy Hickman, is one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world and has written numerous stories and short novels set in fantastic worlds.
Margaret Weis started life in 1948 in Independence, Missouri, and later attended the High school of Missouri. She discovered heroic fantasy fiction while in college, I read Tolkien when it made its first big sweep in the colleges back in 1966. A girlfriend of mine gave me copy of the works while I was in summer colledge 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. She graduated with a bachelor's degree of Arts[citation, needed] and went to work for a small publishing enterprise in Independence and became an editor there. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Weis created books for kids, including a biography of notorious frontier bandits Jesse and Frank James. Weis created about subjects such as computer graphics, robots, the history of Thanksgiving, and an adventure book written at a 2nd-grade reading level , but eventually decided she needed a change.
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Soon she discovered what would become her real career: I did see the beginnings of the D&d game all of the little works but was pretty much occupied by marriage, kids, and a career, and just didn't pursue it.
Margaret Weis
