Glenn Murphy wrote his first book, Why Is Snot Green?, while working at the Science Museum, London. Since then, he has written around twenty popular science titles aimed at kids and teens, including the best-selling How Loud Can You Burp? and A Kids' Guide to Global Warming. His books are read by brainy children, parents and teachers worldwide, and have been translated into Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian. Which is kind of awesome. In 2007, he moved to the United States and began writing full-time. Which explains why he now says things like 'kind of awesome'. These days, he lives in sunny, leafy North Carolina - with his wife Heather, his son Sean, and two unfeasibly large felines.