Stuart Moulthrop (born 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, both as a theoretician and as a writer.
He is author of the hypertext fiction works Victory Garden (1992), which was on the front-page of the New York Times Book Review in 1993, Reagan Library (1999), and Hegirascope (1995), amongst many others.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1957, he became an English major at George Washington University after reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon in 1975.
[9] In an analysis of the reception of Moulthrop's hypertext fiction Victory Garden, Dene Grigar found that it has been the subject of over 100 scholarly books, dissertations and articles.
[10] Bell notes that Stuart Moulthrop's Higirascope (1995) explits web technology to set the pace of reading, as each screen was only available for 18 seconds.