Richard Brightfield is an American writer of children's gamebook

Gamebook

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He wrote a number of 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...

 books, and was the first author to establish himself within that series after its founders 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...

 and R.A. Montgomery. Although he is probably best known among collectors of that series for his books on martial arts

Martial arts

Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....

, his earliest works for that series had quite different subject matter, being focused on various scientific topics or fantasy.

Brightfield resides in Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County is the largest county in the state of Florida in total area, and third in population. As of 2010, the county's estimated population was 1,320,134, making it the twenty-eighth most populous in the United States...

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Choose Your Own Adventure

• 19. Secret of the Pyramids
• 26. The Phantom Submarine
• 30. The Curse of Batterslea Hall
• 33. The Dragons' Den
• 36. The Secret Treasure of Tibet
• 46. The Deadly Shadow
• 70. Invaders of the Planet Earth
• 75. Planet of the Dragons
• 82. Hurricane!
• 88. Master of Kung Fu
• 102. Master of Tae Kwon Do
• 106. Hijacked!
• 108. Master of Karate
• 126. Master of Martial Arts
• 148. Master of Judo
• 166. Master of Aikido
• 176. Master of Kendo

Choose Your Own Adventure - Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

• 1. The Valley of the Kings
• 2. South of the Border
• 3. Revolution in Russia
• 4. Masters of the Louvre
• 5. African Safari
• 6. Behind the Great Wall
• 7. The Roaring Twenties
• 8. The Irish Rebellion

Choose Your Own Nightmare

• 3. Island of Doom
• 12. Something's in the Woods
• 15. How I Became a Freak

Earth Inspectors

• 7. China: Why Was an Army Made of Clay?
• 8. U.S.A.: What is the Great American Invention?

Escape from the Kingdom of Frome

• 2. The Forest of the King
• 3. The Caverns of Mornas
• 4. The Battle of Astar

Your AMAZING Adventures

• 1. The Castle of Doom
• 2. Island of Fear
• 3. Terror Under the Earth
• 4. The Dragonmaster
• 5. Revenge of the Dragonmaster
• 6. The Battle of the Dragons