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Ramsey Montgomery
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Ramsey Montgomery (Raymond Almiran Montgomery, III) (May 1, 1967, Burlington, Vermont - March 4, 2008, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) was an American writer and educator who resided in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where he taught English. He was the son of writers R. A. Montgomery and Constance Cappel, as well as the brother of writer Anson Montgomery. They (Cappel/Montomery) founded Vermont Crossroads Press in 1972 and published the original Adventures of You Series. Shannon Gilligan is the stepmother of Ramsey Montgomery.; Constance Cappel Montgomery wrote Hemingway in Michigan (Fleet Publishing, 1966) under her married name as well as several juvenile books with Raymond Montgomery. Constance Cappel was the original editor for "Sugarcane Island" and "Journey Under the Sea." Vermont Crossroads Press subcontracted the Adventures of You series to first Pocket Books and then Bantam where it became Choose Your Own Adventure series. Constance Cappel and Raymond A. Montomery,Jr. were married on June 16, 1962 (New York Times) and divorced on April 1, 1980 in Montpelier, Vermont.(Who's Who in America) Ramsey was educated at the University of Vermont and also spent time at Oxford University but worked for most of his adult life as a painter in Colorado. He was known for his love of skiing and mountains. Also enjoying reading, Ramsey authored four Choose Your Own Adventure books during the late 1980s and 1990s, after which he spent an increasing amount of vacation time in Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. In 2003, he spent two months in a Buddhist monastery in northern Thailand, and after that travelled up the Mekong River in a dugout canoe. He also served on the board of directors for Nomadic Marketing, which helps NGOs in Southeast Asia develop marketing materials and supported The Library Project, which aims to build low-cost (US$150) libraries in China, Vietnam and Cambodia. Ramsey died unexpectedly at the age of just forty in Ho Chi Minh City of a brain aneurysm Works * Choose Your Own Adventure #76: The Mona Lisa is Missing!, February 1988 * Choose Your Own Adventure #103: Grave Robbers, July 1990 * Choose Your Own Adventure #125: Outlaw Gulch, May 1992 * Choose Your Own Adventure #157: U.N. Adventure, 1995 
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