Bruce Robert Cordell is an American author of role playing games and fantasy novels. Born in South Dakota in 1968, he graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1992. He has worked for Wizards of the Coast since 1997, before that he worked at TSR, Inc. starting in 1995. He currently lives in the greater Seattle area. In 1998 he won the Origins Award for Best Adventure for Return to the Tomb of Horrors.