Dave Grossman is a writer and game designer whose characteristic wit and meticulous craft have adorned numerous titles over the past twenty years, including The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, the Pajama Sam series, Sam & Max, and many others. He has also written several children's books, one newspaper column and about eight hundred poems, and co-designed a successful robot toy. He is currently the director of design at Telltale Games, a medium-sized studio which has released some three dozen top-notch titles in the last five years. He likes pie.