Christopher Moore (author)

Christopher Moore (author)
Christopher Moore

Author Christopher Moore signing a copy of Bite Me at Politics & Prose in Washington, DC.
Born 1 January 1957 (1957-01-01) (age 54)
Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Genres Humor, fantasy, horror, absurdist fiction, comic fantasy, Mystery fiction, Adventure fiction

Christopher Moore (born 1957 in Toledo, Ohio[1]) is an American writer of comic fantasy. He grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.

Moore was an only child, and learned to amuse himself with his imagination. He loved reading as a child, and his father brought him plenty of books back from the library every week. He started writing around the age of twelve, and realised that this was his talent by the time he was 16, and he began to consider making it his career.[2]

Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. His humanism is inherited from his love of John Steinbeck and a sense of the absurd from Kurt Vonnegut. With the exception of Fool, all his books take place in the same universe and characters appear interchangeably from novel to novel.

Moore has a characteristic view of the world; the randomness of life amuses but frightens him. This is reflected in most of his books, especially the ones about supernatural whimsy horror.[2]

According to his interview in the June 2007 issue of Writer's Digest, the film rights to Moore's first novel, Practical Demonkeeping (1992), were purchased by Disney even before the book had a publisher. In answer to repeated questions from fans over the years, Moore stated that all of his books have been optioned or sold for films, but that as yet "none of them are in any danger of being made into a movie."[3]

As of June 2006, Moore has been living in San Francisco, California, after a few years' residence on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.

Contents

Novels

Short stories


Other works

  • The Griff (a graphic novel co-written with Ian Corson and illustrated by Jennyson Rosero)

Notes

  1. ^ "Cambria Author" profile on Cambria, CA website, July 1996.
  2. ^ a b Questions and Answers with Christopher Moore - Hortorian.com
  3. ^ Author Interview at Borders book signing

References

  • "The WD Interview: Christopher Moore," Writer's Digest, June 2007, pp. 58–62.

External links


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