Shannon Gilligan is an author of interactive fiction and computer games. She graduated from graduated from Williams College in 1981 and spent a year abroad at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. She published 14 books in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. She also writes the History Mystery Series and Our Secret Gang series for children. Over 2 million copies of her books are in print in several languages incuding English, Italian, Spanish and Turkish. She also works in mystery computer games for Activision such as The Elk Moon Murder and the Murder Mystery series for Creative Multimedia. She was the first person to be inducted into the Mystery Writers of America based on interactive works.

Some of her works include:

in the Choose Your Own Adventure series

• The Search for Champ (No. 14) 1983
• The Three Wishes (No. 15) 1984
• Mona is Missing (No. 21) 1984
• The Mystery of Ura Senke (No. 44) 1985
• The Fairy Kidnap (No. ?) 1985
• The Case of the Silk King (No. 53) 1986, adapted by ABC for an hour-long prime-time special
• Haunted Harbor (No. ?) 1986
• Home in Time for Christmas (No. ?) 1987
• Terror in Australia (No. 81) 1988
• Haunted Harbor (No. 33) 1986
• The Terrorist Trap (No. ?) 1991
• Showdown (No.127) 1992

mystery games

• The Elk Moon Murder
• Who Killed Sam Rupert?
• Who Killed Elspeth Haskard?
• The Magic Death
• Who Killed Taylor French?
• Comic Creator, called the best software of 1995 by People magazine

External link

• Interview with author (http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/gamezone/html/feature/pulse/pulse5.htm)