Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on October 23rd, 1963 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 61, Gordon Korman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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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. This became the manuscript for 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 14 years old. Before graduating from high school in Thornhill, Ontario, Korman wrote and published five books.
Korman has written 100 books which have sold more than 35 million copies in a career that has spanned four decades.
- Air Canada Award for promising authors in Canada, at age 17
- 1991 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award (chosen by Manitoba schoolchildren), The Zucchini Warriors (1988)
- 1999 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993)
- 2001 American Library Association Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, Losing Joe's Place (1990)
- 2001 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1993)
- 2003 ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, Son of the Mob (2002)
- 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)
- 2004 ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Jake Reinvented (2003)
- 2005 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Award – Intermediate, Son of the Mob (2002)
- 2010 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Award – Intermediate, Schooled (2007)
- 2010–2011 Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (by vote of Arkansas schoolchildren), Swindle (2008)
- 2011–2012 Charlie May Simon Award, Zoobreak (2009)
- 2016 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature
- 2020 Young Hoosier Book Award (Intermediate), Restart (2017)