Christopher Moore is an American writer known for his works of absurdist fiction. Born in 1957 in Toledo, Ohio, he was raised in Mansfield, Ohio. Moore began writing at the age of 12 and moved to California at 19. He studied at Ohio State University and the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.

Moore has worked a variety of jobs including insurance salesman, waiter, photographer, journalist, factory worker in a religious figurine factory, and DJ. His novels often feature ordinary characters finding themselves in supernatural or extraordinary situations. He is greatly inspired by John Steinbeck's humanism and Kurt Vonnegut's sense of the absurd, contributing to his status as a best-selling author with a cult following.

His first novel, Practical Demonkeeping (1992), had its film rights acquired by Disney even before its publication, though none of his books have been adapted into films as of now.