Joe Dever

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joe Dever
Date Of Birth	Feb 12, 1956(1956-02-12)
Age	68
Date Of Death	2016-11-30
Birthplace	Chingford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aquarius

Joe Dever Biography

Joe Dever is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on February 12, 1956 in Chingford, England, United Kingdom. Joseph Robert Dever, also called Joe Dever (12 February 1956 29 November 2016) was an English writer of fantasy and game creator. At first, he was a musician. Dever was one of the very first British winner of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Championship of America in 1982.

The first time he developed the universe of Magnamund in the year 1977, as the setting to the Dungeons & Dragons campaign. The year 1984 was when he published the first volume of the Lone Wolf series of young-adult gamebooks. The series has since sold more than 11.5 million copies across the world (as as of the end of September, 2014). The author had a difficult time with his publisher when the market for games books was beginning to shrink in 1995. The publication stopped in 1998 prior to when the final four volumes (numbers 29-30) were published. Since 2003 the series has experienced an enormous increase in popularity especially across France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Poland in the wake of the relaunch of the gamebooks in these countries.

Between 1990–2011, four scripts were developed of Lone Wolf for a potential film release, but did not proceed beyond the pre-production phase.

In 1999, Dever gave his permission for the Lone Wolf books, numbers one through twenty, to be published for free on the internet by the non-profit organization Project Aon. Joe Dever later gave his permission to publish the New Order series and The Magnamund Companion. In July 2014, on the 30th anniversary of the first publication of Lone Wolf 1: Flight from the Dark, the 28th book in his Lone Wolf series was released online by Project Aon. The World of Lone Wolf series, The Magnamund Companion and several other Lone Wolf related written works are also available for free download from this site.

Dever was born in Chingford and attended Buckhurst Hill County High School. In 1976, he was a member of the orchestra based in the studios of a record label located in London named Pye Records which provided accompaniment to famous soloists and musicians. In the course of 18 months, the group ended up disbanding and Dever went on to freelance for a time before being hired by Virgin Records as a recording engineer in Manor Studios in Oxfordshire. Dever was with Virgin over five years and worked with a wide collection of artists like Frank Zappa, Peter Gabriel along with The Sex Pistols. Dever has two kids, Ben (b. 1981) and Sophie (b. 1987).

Joe Dever Net Worth

Joe Dever is one of the richest Author from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe Dever 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Joe Dever was seven years old when he began to become an avid reader of comic strips such as “The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire” that was published in the magazine Look and Learn. He also constructed forces made up of Airfix Roman soldiers and converted their spears into laser rifles, long before he became a fan of fantasy. Dever was first exposed to “science fantasy” in 1970 by his Grammar school English teacher. Dever was the first and possibly the only British participant with the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Championship of America that he was the winner in 1982.

Dever first created the world of fantasy Magnamund in the year 1975. Later, in 1977, he began using it as the backdrop for his Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. The world was initially referred to as “Chinaraux”, at first the world was comprised of the northern part of Magnamund. Dever said that his first sources of inspiration to write Lone Wolf were English medieval classics, such as Beowulf, Ivanhoe, and The Once And Future King. In his teenage years, J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock and Mervyn Peake, as well as an curiosity about the history of military and Norse mythology each helped to create the Lone Wolf series.

Lone Wolf had originally been intended to be an RPG system for Games Workshop, before Dever negotiated a better deal from Beaver Books, an imprint of Hutchinson Publishing Ltd., and released it as a connected series of solo gamebooks. Dever was originally contracted by this London-based publisher Hutchinson to write four books, but he had already planned for there to be twenty in the series. The first two books in the gamebook series were published simultaneously in July 1984. They sold in excess of 100,000 copies in the first week of release. Subsequently, the Lone Wolf series has been published in over 30 countries, translated into 18 languages, and has sold in excess of 12 million copies to date. The series was awarded the Gamemaster International “All Time Great” award in 1991 and also won “Game Book of the Year” awards in 1985, 1986 and 1987.

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Mongoose Publishing reprinted the original Lone Wolf gamebooks in Collector hardcover volumes beginning in 2007; besides expanding some of the volumes, Mongoose also promised to publish Lone Wolf through its entire 32-book arc – as Dever had originally intended – rather than just the 28 books of the original series. The first seventeen books in this series were published by Mongoose Publishing before it was announced that Mongoose had lost the license to publish the Lone Wolf line on 27 February 2013. Shortly after this, it was announced that German publisher, Mantikore-Verlag, had acquired the rights to continue publishing the Collector series hardcovers in English from book 18 to

28. The 22nd book in the series, The Buccaneers of Shadaki, was published in September 2015 and was the last one released by Mantikore-Verlag.

Facts & Trivia

Joe Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Joe Dever celebrates birthday on February 12 of every year.

Only the first four volumes of the Legends of Lone Wolf were made available in the United States (though Sword of the Sun was divided into two separate volumes, The Tides of Treachery and Sword of the Sun), and only the first 20 of the Lone Wolf gamebook series were printed in the United States. The American editions of books 13–20 were abridged versions and are shorter than the UK editions which have colour maps. In The Magnamund Companion, all the countries of the Lone Wolf world are described in some detail, as are Lone Wolf’s main enemies – the Darklords of Helgedad – and their Giak language. There is also a Ragadorn Tavern Board Game, and a solo adventure where you play as Banedon the Magician.

How many Lone Wolf books are there?

Lone Wolf is a series currently consisting of 31 gamebooks , created by Joe Dever and initially illustrated (books 1–8) by Gary Chalk.

Who wrote Lone Wolf?

Jodi Picoult

What does lone wolf represent?

Wolves are famous for living in packs. Therefore, a lone wolf is one that, for whatever reason, has no pack. Likewise, regarding the first definition of this idiom, a person who is a lone wolf is a person who prefers solitude to the company of other people. People could demonstrate this trait for many reasons.

Are lone wolves real?

The implication is that there’s something wrong with a “lone wolf.” After all, wolves are very social animals that usually run in packs. The “lone wolf” is sometimes an outcast who has to hide from the main pack, but they’re actually rare.

What is Lone Wolf dos2?

Lone Wolf is a talent in Divinity: Original Sin 2. Lone Wolf grants bonuses when the player party is under 2 characters, meaning if they have 3 it’ll be reduced and 4 it’ll be nullified completely.