| Shannon Gilligan | |
| Birth Place: | United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Genre: | Interactive fiction |
| Partner: | R. A. Montgomery |
Shannon Gilligan is an author of interactive fiction and computer games.
Gilligan graduated from Williams College in 1981 and spent a year abroad at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.
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.[1] 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.[2] 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 including English, Italian, Spanish and Turkish. 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.[3] Gilligan is credited as the producer and director of Comic Creator, with R. A. Montgomery being the creator. She was the first person to be inducted into the Mystery Writers of America based on interactive works.