Christopher Moore

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

Early life

Christopher Moore was born in Toledo and grew up in Mansfield, Ohio. An only child, he learned to amuse himself with his imagination. He loved reading and his father brought him plenty of books from the library every week. He started writing around the age of 12 and realized that it was his talent by the time he was 16. He began to consider making it his career.

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

Writing career

Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. Excluding Fool, The Serpent of Venice, Sacré Bleu, and Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel, all of 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 said that all of his books have been optioned or sold for films, but as of yet "none of them are in any danger of being made into a movie."

Moore names 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 being key influences on his writing.

Personal life

Since at least June 2006, Moore lives in San Francisco, after a few years of being on the island of Kauai.