About
Stuart Gibbs (born June 11, 1969) is an American author who has written mostly mystery and humor books that are aimed for tweens and teens.
Gibbs’ books have been described as “fun, fast-paced” and “entertaining.” He has written six book series: the FunJungle series, the Moon Base Alpha series, the Spy School series, the Charlie Thorne series, the Last Musketeer and Once Upon a Tim. He also wrote a Batman comic called Bruce Wayne: Not Super. Gibbs wrote screenplays for Showdown (1993), See Spot Run (2001), and Repli-Kate (2002).
Gibbs was born in 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, moved to Washington, D.C. at five, and moved to San Antonio, Texas when he was seven. He attended the University of Pennsylvania. While in college, he studied biology.
Gibbs has two children, Violet and Dashiell. His wife, Suzanne, died in 2018.
The FunJungle series is about a boy named Theodore (Teddy) Fitzroy who lives with his family in the largest zoo in America, the (fictional) titular FunJungle. Teddy and his friends solve various mysteries that occur around the zoo, trying to watch out for people that will make his life harder, such…
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