Louise Munro Foley is a Canadian writer who later moved to the United States. She was born as Louise Munro in Toronto; her last name was adopted in 1957 when she married Donald Foley.

In the 1960s she worked as a copy editor for a number of radio stations and department stores before taking courses at California State University

California State University

The California State University is a public university system in the state of California. It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. It is incorporated as The Trustees of the...

 in Sacramento

Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...

. Whilst doing this, she wrote her first book, "The Caper Club" and it was published in 1969. Foley also wrote a number of articles for Writer's Digest

Writer's Digest

Writer's Digest is an American magazine devoted to both beginning and established writers, offering interviews, market listings, calls for manuscripts, and how-to articles....

and the Christian Science Monitor during this period, besides hosting a number of radio programmes. After she finished her degree at California State University in 1976, Foley divorced and turned to full-time writing, firstly for the Twistaplot

Twistaplot

Twistaplot is a series of children's gamebooks, that were published by Scholastic from 1982 to 1985. Books #1, #4, and #9, were written by R.L. Stine, who would go one to write the Fear Street series, and the Goosebumps series, which in turn, spawned the gamebook spin-off series, Give Yourself...

series and from 1983, for Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. The series was based on a...

.

Foley was only the fourth author after Edward Packard

Edward Packard

Edward Packard 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...

, R.A. Montgomery and Richard Brightfield

Richard Brightfield

Richard Brightfield is an American writer of children's gamebooks.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...

 to permanently establish within the Choose Your Own Adventure series.

Her last book for Choose Your Own Adventure, Ghost Train was written in 1991. Since that time, Foley has moved to young-adult fiction, writing a number of books about intelligent cat

Cat

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s.

Foley is currently an instructor at the Institute of Children's Literature

Institute of Children's Literature

The Institute of Children's Literature is an institute founded in 1969 that offers a course entitled "Writing for Children and Teenagers". Completing the course is worth six college credits, which can be obtained from Charter Oak State College...

 in West Redding, Connecticut.

Choose Your Own Adventure Books

• #23 The Lost Tribe (August 1983)
• #34 The Mystery of the Highland Crest (July 1984)
• #42 The Mystery of Echo Lodge (March 1985)
• #49 Danger at Anchor Mine (October 1985)
• #54 Forest of Fear (March 1986)
• #65 The Mardi Gras Mystery (February 1987)
• #79 Mystery of the Sacred Stones (May 1988)
• #104 The Cobra Connection (August 1990)
• #120 Ghost Train (December 1991)