Christopher Moore (author)

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

Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters suddenly struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. Inheriting a humanism from his love of John Steinbeck and a sense of the absurd from Kurt Vonnegut, Moore is a best-selling author with major cult status.

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. Nevertheless, the cinematic manifestation of Moore's novels is yet to be fulfilled: during his book-tour for You Suck (early 2007), 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."^[2]

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

Contents 1 Novels 2 Short Stories 3 Other Works 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Novels

• Practical Demonkeeping (1992)Orbit Book Co. ISBN 9781841494470
• Coyote Blue (1994) Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-06-073543-0
• Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (1995) Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-81097-2
• Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997) Avon ISBN 0-06-073544-9
• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (1999) Harper Collins ISBN 0-06-059027-0
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002) HarperCollins Publication ISBN 0-380-81381-5
• Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (2003) William Morrow & Company ISBN 0-380-97841-5
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (2004) William Morrow & Company Publication 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 32-page short story at the end
• A Dirty Job (2006) (awarded The Quill Book Award for General Fiction for 2006) Harper Collins ISBN 0-06-059027-0
• You Suck: A Love Story (2007) William Morrow ISBN 0-06-059029-7

[edit] Short Stories

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

[edit] Other Works

• The Griff (2001), a screenplay co-written by Moore and Ian Corson

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

• Preview interview in advance of book tour stop for You Suck in Phoenix, in which he identifies his "average reader" and talks about researching the voice of a 16-year-old goth girl: "Basically, you just become a huge perv and lurk on MySpace."
• Christopher Moore's own homepage
• Christopher Moore's fan bulletin board, on which he maintains a blog and a bulletin board for fans, and frequently participates
• Interview from ca. 2001 at Bookhaunts.net
• Christopher Moore's MySpace profile
• Online interview from CBC's Words at Large
• Web-video of book-signing appearance by Moore at Borders Books and Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on February 15, 2007
• Interview with Sci Fi Weekly from April 16, 2007