Edward Packard

Edward Packard (born 1931) is an American author, in addition to his work as a lawyer, essayist, and poet. He was born in Huntington, New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School. Packard is one of the pioneering authors of the second-person fiction style made famous by the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's books.

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    Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.
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