Edward Packard was born in 1931 in Huntington, New York and is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School. He conceived of the idea and wrote the prototype book for Bantam’s classic Choose Your Own Adventure series and wrote many other books for young readers. His six Space Hawks books were published in China in 2004 in conjunction with China’s first manned space mission. His non-fiction book, Imagining the Universe, won a Scientific American book award. He self-published his book, All It Takes -- the Three Keys to Making Wise Decisions and Not Making Stupid Ones, in 2011. Notes from the Afterlife is his first novel.