Williams also worked for Apple, developing an interest in interactive multi-media. īefore becoming a full time fiction author Williams held many jobs including delivering newspapers, food service, DJ and station music director for college radio station KFJC, shoe sales, branch manager of a financial institution, writing for the TheatreWorks company and drawing military manuals. The semi-autobiographical character Pogo Cashman, who appears in some of his stories, is a reference to the nickname. His mother gave him the nickname "Tad" after the young characters in Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo. His family was close, and he and his brothers were always encouraged in their creativity. He attended Palo Alto Senior High School. He grew up in Palo Alto, the town that grew up around Stanford University. Robert Paul "Tad" Williams was born in San Jose, California on March 14, 1957. The in-progress third book is under the current title The Heirs of Ordinary Farm and does not have a release date yet. The first two books in the series are The Dragons of Ordinary Farm and The Secrets of Ordinary Farm. Williams is collaborating on a series of young-adult books with his wife, Deborah Beale, called The Ordinary Farm Adventures. Other comic work includes Mirrorworld: Rain and The Helmet of Fate: Ibis the Invincible #1 (DC). He also wrote Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis issue #50 to #57. Williams's work in comics includes a six issue mini-series for DC Comics called The Next. Cumulatively, over 17 million copies of Williams's works have been sold. Most recently, Williams published three novels in his series The Last King of Osten Ard, with the final novel The Navigator's Children set to be published in 2024. He is the author of the multivolume Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, Otherland series, Shadowmarch series, and The Bobby Dollar series, as well as the standalone novels Tailchaser's Song and The War of the Flowers. Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. Storyteller, novelist, short story writer, comics writer and essayist
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