The Crossroads

CHRIS GRABENSTEIN is the Anthony Award–winning author of the adult titles Tilt-a-Whirl, Mad Mouse, and Whack A Mole. Apparently, he spends far too much time at amusement parks. Here’s a tip learned the hard way: Never eat six hot dogs prior to riding a roller coaster. He used to write TV and radio commercials and has written for the Muppets.

Chris was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, when he was ten. After college, he moved to New York City with six suitcases and a typewriter to become an actor and a writer. For five years, he did improvisational comedy in a Greenwich Village theater with some of the city’s funniest performers, including this one guy named Bruce Willis.

Currently, Chris and his wife, J.J., live in New York City with three cats and a dog named Fred, who starred in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Broadway. You can visit Chris (and Fred) at www.ChrisGrabenstein.com.