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4 unusual facts about Edward Packard


Edward Packard

Along with R. A. Montgomery, his original publisher at Vermont Crossroads Press, Packard wrote many more books in the series, contributing well over 60 titles by 1998, when the series ended.

Louise Munro Foley

Foley was only the fourth author after Edward Packard, R.A. Montgomery and Richard Brightfield to permanently establish within the Choose Your Own Adventure series.

R. A. Montgomery

Working from a book manuscript written by Edward Packard, he and his then partner/wife, (Constance Cappel) published four books at Vermont Crossroads Press that would later be included in the Bantam "Choose" series (The Cave of Time, Journey Under the Sea, By Balloon to the Sahara, and Space and Beyond).

Richard Brightfield

He wrote a number of Choose Your Own Adventure books, and was the first author to establish himself within that series after its founders Edward Packard and R.A. Montgomery.



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Snape, Suffolk

The discovery of the commercial viability of this process (by a Saxmundham bone merchant, Edward Packard) led to what has been dubbed "the Suffolk Gold Rush", and local fortunes were made (Packard established what was to become the fertiliser company Fisons, now part of AstraZeneca).