Philip Athans

Philip Athans was born in 1964 in Rochester, New York, but was raised in Chicago. He is Managing Editor for Wizards of the Coast Book Publishing, and wrote some of the first Forgotten Realms books as well as many others like Lies of the Light in 2006 and Realms of War coming up in 2008. He is well-known for writing the novelizations of the computer games, Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.

Childhood
Athans grew up reading Marvel comics and Starlog magazines, and watching Star Trek.

Education
Athans graduated from film school in 1985 and began circulating his own literary magazine called Alternative Fiction &amp; Poetry.

Employment
Although Athans used to work in a record store while working on his writing career in his spare time, he was taken on in the book publising department of TSR in 1995, and survived the transition to Wizards of the Coast later that decade, where he works to this day.

Novels

 * Scream of Stone, expected mid-2007
 * Scream of Stone, expected mid-2007
 * Scream of Stone, expected mid-2007
 * Scream of Stone, expected mid-2007
 * Scream of Stone, expected mid-2007
 * Scream of Stone, expected mid-2007

Short stories

 * The Ninth Cylinder in Starfall
 * The Lady and the Shadow in Realms of the Arcane
 * Greven's Tale in Rath and Storm
 * Leviathan in Myths of Magic
 * Song for the Plague Rats in Secrets of Magic
 * Astride the Wind in Realms of Shadow