Gordon Korman

Who is Gordon Korman?

Gordon Korman is a Canadian American author, primarily of novels for children and young adults. He lives in Long Island's Great Neck, New York, with his wife and three children.

Korman wrote his first book unexpectedly when he was twelve years old. While attending German Mills Public School, his 7th grade English teacher was Mr. Hamilton, a track and field coach who found himself teaching English for the first time. Hamilton required students to write a novel during the semester, and this assignment became the manuscript for Korman's first book, This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book in his Macdonald Hall series.

Korman was the Scholastic Arrow Book Club monitor for the class; after completing the assignment, he mailed his manuscript to Scholastic. This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall was published by Scholastic Press in 1978 when Korman was only fourteen years old. Before graduating from high school in Thornhill, Ont., Korman wrote and published five books.

Korman has written more than 75 books which have sold more than 17 million copies in a career that has spanned three decades.