Here is where I drop my favorite bit of trivia: Zilpha Keatley Snyder (The Egypt Game, etc) wrote an adventure game during the '80s. This is admittedly a stretch, but I wanted to mention it.
The Greensky proto-platformer? Yes, that was part of the Windham Classics run of literary-based games – rather the 80s equivalent of what Legend did. (Except that I always mix them up with Telarium, which did the same thing at about the same time.)
after he gets tired of comics and novels, I hope Neil Gaiman will consider (parser-based) IF 
Hmmm. That would be awesome.
holding out hope for margaret atwood
Some of the Eastgate hypertext authors were also static fiction authors too, weren’t they? Sarah Smith wrote some nifty pseudo-historical mysteries and an Eastgate thing… did Robert Coover ever write any hypertext? Unfortunately I’ve never been able to play any Eastgate stuff.