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Gordon Korman

Nascido: October 23, 1963 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gordon Korman is a Canadian-American author of middle-grade and young adult fiction, known for humorous school stories and fast-paced adventures including This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!, Swindle, Restart, and books in The 39 Clues. A #1 New York Times bestselling writer, he has published over 100 books, translated into 32 languages and sold over 35 million copies worldwide.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Gordon Korman was born on October 23, 1963, in Montreal and grew up mostly in the Toronto area, where an unusually open-ended seventh-grade English assignment changed the course of his life. At twelve, he wrote a comic boarding-school manuscript that became This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall; after sending it to Scholastic with his class book orders, he saw it published when he was a high-school freshman. What began as a fluke quickly became a vocation. Korman later earned a BFA from New York University, majoring in dramatic writing with a minor in film and television, training that matched the pace, dialogue, and scene-building that would become central to his fiction. ((https://gordonkorman.com/more-resources/about-gordon-korman-2))

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I love my job
-Author Q&A
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If you’re bored writing, it won’t be interesting for anybody else to read
-Author Q&A
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There’s always a little bit of real life behind my storylines
-A Message From Gordon Korman
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I was just as ungifted as Donovan Curtis
-Gordon Answers the Top Ten Questions Kids Ask
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Keep on laughing!
-Gordon Answers the Top Ten Questions Kids Ask
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I’ve always believed that childhood is kind of timeless
-Gordon Korman, Prolific—and Lifelong—Author, Balances Absurdity and Heart
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All my books have been about the nature of kid friendships
-Gordon Korman Talks with Roger
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It just worked out that way
-Gordon Korman Publishes His 100th Book with Scholastic

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