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Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian American author. Korman has written 100 children's and young adult fiction books.[1] Korman's books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide over a career spanning four decades and have appeared at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. [2] [3]

Gordon Korman
Korman at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born	(1963-10-23) October 23, 1963 (age 59) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Canadian, American
Alma mater	New York University
Period	1975–present
Genre	Realistic fiction, adventure fiction, young adult fiction
Notable works	Macdonald Hall Swindle The Toilet Paper Tigers The 39 Clues (contributor)
Website
www.gordonkorman.com

Early life

Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he lived until 1970.[1] He grew up in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) and attended German Mills Public School and public high school at Thornlea Secondary School.[1][4]

He moved to the United States to attend college at New York University where he studied film and film-writing.[5] Korman received a BFA from New York University in 1985;[1] with a degree in dramatic visual writing and a minor in motion picture and television.

Career

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Korman wrote his first book when he was 12 years old, as part of an English class taught by a PE teacher in 7th grade.[6] This became the manuscript for This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book in his Macdonald Hall series.[1] Korman was the Scholastic Arrow Book Club monitor for the class; after completing the assignment, he mailed his manuscript to Scholastic.[5] This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall was published by Scholastic Press in 1978 when Korman was only 14 years old.[1] Before graduating from high school in Thornhill, Ontario, Korman wrote and published five books.[4]

Korman has written 100 books[7] which have sold more than 35 million copies^{[citation needed]} in a career that has spanned four decades.

Works

Non-series books

Series

Adaptations

The Monday Night Football Club series was adapted as the Disney Channel TV series The Jersey, which ran for four years between 1999 and 2004.[10]

Swindle was adapted into a movie that aired on Nickelodeon in 2013.^{[citation needed]}

The Macdonald Hall series has a TV adaptation of one of the books, called "Bruno and Boots Go Jump in the Pool". It stars Jonny Gray, Callan Potter and Peter Keleghan. It aired April 1, 2016 on the Canadian network YTV.[11] Two more adaptations aired there the following year, April 1, 2017.

Other optioned books include No Coins, Please, I Want to Go Home, the Island trilogy and The Twinkie Squad.[1]

Awards and recognition

• Air Canada Award for promising authors in Canada, at age 17[12]
• 1991 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award (chosen by Manitoba schoolchildren), The Zucchini Warriors (1988)[13]
• 1999 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993)[14]
• 2001 American Library Association Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, Losing Joe's Place (1990)[15]
• 2001 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1993)[15]
• 2003 ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, Son of the Mob (2002)[16]
• 2003 Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (chosen by Pacific NW schoolchildren), Intermediate Division (Grades 7–9), No More Dead Dogs (2003)[17]
• 2004 ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Jake Reinvented (2003)[18]
• 2005 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Award – Intermediate, Son of the Mob (2002)[17]
• 2010 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Award – Intermediate, Schooled (2007)[17]
• 2010–2011 Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (by vote of Arkansas schoolchildren), Swindle (2008)[19][20]
• 2011–2012 Charlie May Simon Award, Zoobreak (2009)[19][20]
• 2016 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature[21]
• 2020 Young Hoosier Book Award (Intermediate), Restart (2017)[22]

See also

References

External links

Library resources about Gordon Korman
Resources in your library Resources in other libraries
By Gordon Korman
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• Official website
• Gordon Korman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Works by or about Gordon Korman in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Gordon Korman at Library of Congress Authorities, with 91 catalog records

На других языках

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[ru] Корман, Гордон

Гордон Корман (род. 23 октября 1963) — канадско-американский писатель, написавший более 80 детских и подростковых книг.[3]

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