Shannon Gilligan

Shannon Gilligan is an author of interactive fiction and computer games.

Early life and education Gilligan graduated from Williams College in 1981 and spent a year abroad at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

Career Gilligan has been extensively involved in the Choose Your Own Adventure series, having written five books in the main series and six others in the "Younger Readers" series. Her stepsons, Ramsey Montgomery(deceased) and Anson Montgomery, wrote several books in the series as well. Shannon was married to the series co-founder, R. A. Montgomery. She also worked in mystery computer games for Activision such as The Elk Moon Murder and the Murder Mystery series for Creative Multimedia. Following her work with Creative Multimedia, she would form Spark Interactive to develop the Windows and Mac software Comic Creator - which was voted "Best Software of the Year" by People Magazine in 1995.

In 2003, Gilligan and her husband, R.A. Montgomery, founded Chooseco, a Choose Your Own Adventure publisher to launch books in print and ebooks.

She lives in Warren, Vermont.

Mystery games The Elk Moon Murder Who Killed Sam Rupert? (1993) Who Killed Brett Penace? The Environmental Surfer (1994) Who Killed Elspeth Haskard? The Magic Death ''Who Killed Taylor French?