Greg Taylor (born 1951) is an American writer of books for children and young adults. He is also a screenwriter of films including Jumanji and Prancer.[1]
Greg Taylor | |
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Born | 1951 (age 72–73) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Children's book writer, screenwriter |
Taylor was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Penn State University.[2]
Published in 2009 by Feiwel & Friends, Greg Taylor's debut novel Killer Pizza is styled after B horror movies.[3] Aspiring to be a famous chef, Toby McGill gets a job at a monster-themed pizza restaurant named Killer Pizza,[3] only to discover that his new place of employment is actually a Monster Hunting Organization; he and other teens, Strobe and Annabel, fight monsters called the guttata (werewolf-like creatures) while disguised in their pizza delivery uniforms.[4][5][6] Film studio MGM was reported in 2011 to have been working on a movie adaptation with a script by Adam Green.[7]
Killer Pizza: The Slice, a sequel to Killer Pizza, was published in 2011 by Feiwel & Friends.[8] Toby and his fellow monster-hunters visit the Killer Pizza headquarters in New York and are sent on a mission involving a teenage shapeshifter.[9][10][11]
Published in 2011 by Feiwel & Friends, this young adult-novel is about a teenage musician who wishes her band, The Caverns, could be as famous as The Beatles. The next day, she finds that The Caverns have replaced The Beatles in history.[12][13][14][15] Christian Science Monitor found it "slight but engaging".[16]