About Gordon Korman

Welcome to the wonderful world of a regular guy who just happened to write 90-something books for kids and teens.

Korman was born on October 23, 1963 in Montreal, Canada, and grew up mostly in the Toronto area.

His writing career began virtually by accident when he was in 7th grade. The track and field coach had to teach English. For creative writing, he gave them total freedom to work on whatever we wanted for the rest of the year. It was February. That added up to a class period per day for more than four months. The result was his first novel, THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING AT MACDONALD HALL.

Gordon Korman sent the manuscript to Scholastic because he was the class monitor for Scholastic Book Orders, and figured he was practically an employee. It was a totally flukey and random way to launch a publishing career, but here’s the thing: It worked. !THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING AT MACDONALD HALL was published by Scholastic when he was a freshman in high school, and he was on his way to a career as an author.

He’s been writing for more than three-quarters of my life. HIs books have been translated into 32 languages and have sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Korman has a BFA degree from New York University with a major in Dramatic Writing and a minor in Film and TV.

Gordon now lives on Long Island, outside New York City, with his wife and family. When he's not writing, you can usually find him driving one of his three kids to some practice or rehearsal or game. Either that, or he's on the road, appearing at schools, libraries, and bookstores, meeting his readers.