Con Chapman is a Boston-area writer and playwright.  He is the author of The Year of the Gerbil: How the Yankees Won (and the Red Sox Lost) the Greatest Pennant Race Ever, a history of the 1978 Red Sox-Yankees season.

His plays The Little Theatre and The Undertakers Club, for middle and high school audiences, are published by Eldridge Publishing and Brooklyn Publishers, respectively.  His trilogy of plays about hockey—Please, Pope; Number One Hockey Mom; and What Mickey Belle Isle Told You—is published by JAC Publishing, as is A Guy Walks Into a Bar, a trilogy of plays about drinking (The Writer and the Talker, Let Me Buy You a Drink, and The Night of the Grasshopper).

His humor has appeared in magazines including The Atlantic Monthly and The Boston Globe Magazine and major newspapers such as The Boston Globe, and he is a frequent contributor to the Boston Herald. 

His humor appears on-line at News Groper, Amazon Shorts and Flak Magazine.