Packard came up with the original idea of writing interactive second-person fiction - in which the reader is the protagonist (“ you are the hero”) and makes choices that affect how the story unfolds - while he was thinking up bedtime stories for his children. Born in Huntington, New York, he is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School. The genre that Packard invented, in which the reader chooses what happens, has come to be called “interactive fiction.” Packard wrote many other children’s books as well, and is also a lawyer, essayist, and poet. Adventure, interactive fiction, children's literature, poetry, essaysĮdward Packard (born February 16, 1931) is an American author, creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure book concept and author of more than 50 books in the series.
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