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Margaret Weis

1948 - Today

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Margaret Edith Weis (; born March 16, 1948) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of dozens of novels and short stories. At TSR, Inc., she teamed with Tracy Hickman to create the Dragonlance role-playing game (RPG) world. She is founding CEO and owner of Sovereign Press, Inc and Margaret Weis Productions, licensing several popular television and movie franchises to make RPG series in addition to their own. In 1999, Pyramid magazine named Weis one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons, saying she and Hickman are "basically responsible for the entire gaming fiction genre". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Weis is the 4,274th most popular writer (down from 3,868th in 2019), the 6,336th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,005th in 2019) and the 482nd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Margaret Weis ranks 4,274 out of 7,302. Before her are Anne Tyler, Emmanuel Roblès, Pauline Kael, William Gaddis, Samih al-Qasim, and Thorkild Hansen. After her are Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Orientius, Ōtomo no Tabito, Juhan Liiv, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, and Ioan Slavici.

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Among people born in 1948, Margaret Weis ranks 403. Before her are Anatoly Solovyev, Levan Tediashvili, Yoshihito, Prince Katsura, Martin Birch, Richard Simmons, and Otto Waalkes. After her are Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan, Benny Morris, Nadezhda Tkachenko, Gary Thain, Valeri Brainin, and Yevhen Arzhanov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Weis ranks 6,337 out of 20,380. Before her are Melanie Martinez (1995), Charles Shyer (1951), Verne Troyer (1969), Henry L. Giclas (1910), Alice Pike Barney (1857), and Marion Donovan (1917). After her are Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), John C. Lilly (1915), Fletcher Henderson (1897), Sharon Gless (1943), Rockwell Kent (1882), and Rainn Wilson (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Margaret Weis ranks 482. Before her are Robert Ettinger (1918), Glen A. Larson (1937), Marilynne Robinson (1943), Anne Tyler (1941), Pauline Kael (1919), and William Gaddis (1922). After her are Hal Clement (1922), Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), Art Buchwald (1925), E. B. White (1899), Julia Quinn (1970), and Camille Paglia (1947).

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