Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore (born 1957 in Toledo, Ohio ) 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. 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 possible exceptions of Fool, and Sacré Bleu, all his books take place in the same universe and…

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