Robert Paul "Tad" Williams is an American storyteller. He is the 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, The War of the Flowers, Caliban's Hour, and Child of an Ancient City. He is currently working on The Bobby Dollar Books. The first two books in the series are The Dirty Streets of Heaven and Happy Hour In Hell; the third book, Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, is scheduled for release in 2014. His short fiction and essays have been published in anthologies and collected in Rite: Short Work and A Stark and Wormy Knight. All told, Williams has sold more than 17 million copies of his books. Williams?s work in comics includes a six issue mini-series for DC Comics called The Next. He also wrote Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis for DC starting with issue #50 and ending with issue #57. Other comic work includes Mirrorworld: Rain and The Helmet of Fate: Ibis the Invincible #1. Tad Williams is collaborating on a series of young-adult books with his wife, Deborah Beale, called The Ordinary Farm Adventures. [More at Wikipedia]

March 14th, 1957 in San Jose (Age 67)