Writer, Game designer

ED GREENWOOD is a Canadian writer, game designer, actor, scriptwriter, and librarian best known for creating The Forgotten Realms fantasy setting (the “official” world of the Dungeons & Dragons game). Ed also created Stormtalons and dozens of other worlds, and has worked in Amber, Oz, the Marvel Universe, and Middle Earth. His 500-plus books have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide in over 40 languages.

Ed was elected to the Academy of Adventure Gaming Art & Design Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2022. Ed has won multiple ENNIE, Origins, and other awards, judged the World Fantasy Awards and the Sunburst Awards, hosted radio shows, acted onstage, explored caves, jousted, and been Santa Claus—but not all on the same day. He’s the only Canadian who has scripted comic books for multiple companies and appeared as himself in comic books published by multiple companies.