Biographical Note

Packard was born in 1931 in Huntington, New York, grew up there, graduated from Princeton, served in the U.S. Navy, graduated from Columbia Law School, and worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. He conceived of the idea and wrote the prototype and first book for Bantam’s classic Choose Your Own Adventure series, wrote a lot of other books in the series, and created other works of fiction and non-fiction, including Imagining the Universe (1994), which received a Scientific American book award. In December, 2024, he licensed six of his most well-known original Choose Your Own Adventure books for reissue by ChooseCo. The first of them, The Cave of Time, was released on August 5, 2025. The second, The Mystery of Chimney Rock, is due out in November.