Christopher Moore (author)

Christopher Moore (born January 1, 1957)^[1] is an American writer.

Christopher Moore was born in Toledo, Ohio ^{[1] [2]} and grew up in Mansfield, Ohio.

An only child, Moore learned to amuse himself with his imagination.^[3] He loved reading and his father brought him plenty of books from the library every week. He started writing around the age of twelve and realized that this was his talent by the time he was 16, and he began to consider making it his career.^[4]

Moore attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.

Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. With the possible exceptions of Fool , The Serpent of Venice, Sacré Bleu, and Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel, all his books take place in the same universe and some characters recur from novel to novel.

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."^[5]

Moore has named Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, John Steinbeck, Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Ian Fleming as key influences on his writing.^{[6] [7] [8]}

As of June 2006, Moore lives in San Francisco, after a few years on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.^{[citation needed ]}

Moore's novels typically take place in the same fictional universe since characters from one book frequently turn up as minor characters or have cameos in other books. Some novels with a common protagonist or setting can be grouped into series; however, with the exception of the vampire books and the Death Merchant Chronicles, they can all be read as stand-alone novels.

• Practical Demonkeeping (1992)^[9]
• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (1999)^[10]
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (2004) William Morrow ISBN 0-06-084235-0
  • The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, v. 2.0 (2005) – contains the same text as the above, with an additional 35-page short story at the end

1. Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (1995)^[11]
2. You Suck: A Love Story (2007) William Morrow ISBN 0-06-059029-7
3. Bite Me: A Love Story (2010) William Morrow ISBN 978-0-06-177972-5

• A Dirty Job (2006) William Morrow ISBN 0-06-059027-0
• Secondhand Souls (2015) HarperCollins Publishers ISBN 978-0-06-177978-7

• Fool (2009) William Morrow ISBN 0-06-059031-9
• The Serpent of Venice (2014) William Morrow ISBN 978-0-06-177976-3 ^[12]
• Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel (2020) New York: William Morrow ISBN 978-0062434029

• Noir (2018) New York: William Morrow ISBN 978-0-06-243397-8
• Razzmatazz (2022) William Morrow ISBN 978-0-06-243412-8

• Coyote Blue (1994)^[13]
• Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997)^[14]
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002) William Morrow ISBN 0-380-81381-5
• Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (2003) William Morrow ISBN 0-380-97841-5
• Sacré Bleu (2012) William Morrow ISBN 978-0-06-177974-9

• "Our Lady of the Fishnet Stockings" (1987)
• "Cat's Karma" (1987)

• The Griff: A Graphic Novel (2011, co-written with Ian Corson and illustrated by Jennyson Rosero, originally conceived in 2001 as a movie script) William Morrow ISBN 978-0-06-197752-7

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

• Official website Edit this at Wikidata
• Christopher Moore at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Interview at Book Reviews and More
• Interview at Windycon 42 Blog, conducted by John O'Neill, 4/24/2015.
• Christopher Moore at Library of Congress, with 18 library catalog records

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