Steve Meretzky is, more than anyone else, the "canonical" adventure game author. While not the first author and not the last, his works, more than most, have retained their status as classic works, and he is often the first of the Infocom Implementors who are pursued to be interviewed or provide a quote. The hope is to bring something new to an interview with him on camera, but either way, he has had literately decades of experience speaking about text adventure games.

From the Boffo Games biography: " Steve was born and raised in Yonkers, NY, where he rooted for the NY Mets and against Richard Nixon. Meretzky moved on to MIT to pursue a career in architecture. MIT's department of Architecture convinced him that he should pursue a career in Construction Management. Several construction firms convinced Meretzky that he should pursue a career as a game tester for Infocom, where he moved onward and upward, producing some of the most successful titles in computer gaming."

From Computer Game Review, 1996: "Steve Meretzky wrote Planetfall (1983), Sorcerer (1984), The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (with Douglas Adams in 1985), A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985), Leather Goddesses of Phobos (1986), Stationfall (1987), and Zork Zero (1988). While Meretzky enjoys his current job he says "nothing will match the excitement and the fun of Infocom in its heyday.... After working in the construction industry for two years -"...those are definitely not years that I look back on with any joy (laughs)"- Meretzky joined Infocom as a tester in November 1981 and became a full-time writer in June 1983, scripting Planetfall."