Christopher Moore Biography

Christopher Moore is an American writer of absurdist fiction. He grew up in Mansfield, OH, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. 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.

Selected bibliography:

• Practical Demonkeeping (1992)
• Coyote Blue (1994)
• Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (1995)
• Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997)
• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (1999)
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002)
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (2004)
• A Dirty Job (2006)
• The Serpent of Venice (2014)
• Secondhand Souls (2015)