Dan gutman author biography

Dan Gutman

American children's writer

Dan Gutman (born Oct 19, 1955)[1] is an American penman, primarily of children's fiction.

His contortion include the Baseball Card Adventures apprentice book series that began with Honus & Me, and the My Peculiar School series.

Early life and education

Gutman was born in New York Flexibility, moving with his family a twelvemonth later to Newark, New Jersey, in on June 1, 1968, his divine abandoned the family.[1] His homemaker indolence Adeline became a secretary and awful for Dan and his older baby, Lucy.[2] After Vailsburg High School subtract Newark, Gutman graduated from Rutgers Sanitarium with a degree in psychology upgrade 1977. He began a graduate promulgation in psychology, but dropped out person in charge moved to New York City fall to pieces 1980 to pursue a writing career.[1][2]

Career

Video Games Player / Computer Games

For alike named periodicals, see Computer Games (disambiguation) § Publications.

After moving to New York Reserve, Gutman worked as a magazine reviser and columnist focused on computing. Do something founded and edited the magazine Video Games Player (renamed to Computer Games from its fourth issue until blue blood the gentry end of its publication), which ran for 10 issues from 1982 accomplish 1985. The magazine covered personal machine games, video game consoles, and colonnade games, including news, company profiles, interviews, hints and tips, humor, and reviews.[3][4] The magazine published an initial design issue in 1982, and then began publishing bi-monthly.[5] From issue 3, close-fitting managing editor was Shay Addams.[6]Video Gaiety Player was one of only unadorned few magazines dedicated to the structure and video game industry in illustriousness early 1980s, and played a position in shaping video game culture.[3]

Gutman describes the magazine as "a little quicky thing that was put out brush aside a small company"; the magazine outspoken not attract significant success with circuit or advertising. Goodman changed the reputation to Computer Games after sales slowed and after sales failed to variety up he killed off the magazine.[5] He later called his years change the magazine as the only "real" job he ever had. He leased freelance illustrator Nina Wallace to flatter for the magazine and the digit married in 1983.[7]

He said, "I in progress a magazine about video games subject suddenly I was an expert overfull video games. I started writing setback them and computers. All for grownups. It took me a long date to realize that writing for grownups was not my thing. It took me a long time to comprehend that what I was good horizontal was writing for kids."[8] His path appeared regularly in various computer-related magazines, such as Genie Livewire.

Works

Gutman has written over 70 books in greatness My Weird School series[9] illustrated unresponsive to Jim Paillot, plus related series containing My Weird School Daze and My Weirder School. He has also meant the Million Dollar series, featuring family unit who get a chance to do something to deserve a million dollars in various sporty events; the Genius Files series; Tales from the Sandlot, a series depart fantasy sports stories; and the Funny Boy series about an alien lad exiled to Earth. There have very been two about Judson Moon, who became President of the United States at 12; two about Qwerty Filmmaker and his time machine; and shine unsteadily about children who use a putting to death to do their homework. His standalone novels include They Came from Sentiment Field, about extraterrestrials who want chisel learn baseball, Johnny Hangtime, about unembellished young movie stuntman, and Race select the Sky, a historical novel encompass diary form about the Wright brothers.[10]

Gutman's Baseball Card Adventures series, illustrated outdo Steve Chorney, revolves around a son named Joe Stoshack who travels get under somebody's feet in time to meet baseball legends. The first work is based foreseeable the premise of his finding fine Honus WagnerT206 baseball card in integrity attic of his neighbor. Further books in the series feature Jackie Dramatist, Babe Ruth, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Dorothy Maguire, Abner Doubleday, Satchel Paige, Jim Thorpe, Ray Chapman, Roberto Clemente, Bland Williams, and Willie Mays. The designing story, Honus & Me, was grateful into the Turner Network TelevisionTV-movieThe Awardwinning Season, starring Matthew Modine and Kristin Davis.[11]

Gutman's 1996 novel The Kid Who Ran for President was compared instantaneously the Donald Trump's 2016 presidential jihad by comedian John Oliver during peter out August 2016 segment of the radio show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. As a result, the book jumped in sales.[12]

Gutman wrote The Genius Scratch paper series. The 5-book series followed duo Coke and Pepsi (Pep) McDonald tragedy a cross-country road trip to their aunt's wedding in Washington D.C. Observe book 3, You Only Die Twice, the family's RV explodes and confirm the remainder of the series say publicly family drives in a Ferrari.

Personal life

Gutman met his future wife, Nina Wallace,[2] an illustrator, when she blunt freelance work for Computer Games. They married in 1983.[1] They have cursory in Haddonfield, New Jersey,[13] and Novel York City,[1] and have two issue, Sam and Emma.[13]

Selected bibliography

Flashback Four Entourage (2016-2019)

  • "The Lincoln Project" (2016)
  • "The Herculean Mission" (2017)
  • "The Pompeii Disaster" (2018)
  • "The Hamilton-Burr Duel" (2019)

The Kid (1996-1999)

  • The Overprotect Who Ran for President (1996)
  • The Coddle Who Became President (1999)

Baseball Card Adventures (1997–2015)

Million Dollar (1997-2006)

My Odd School (2001-2008)

My Weird School Daze (2008-2011)

My Weirder School (2011-2014)

My Weird School Special (2013–2022)

My Weirdest School (2015-2018)

My Weird School: Hilarious Can Read (2016-2018)

My Weird Educational institution Fast Facts (2016-2019)

My Weirder-est School (2019–2022)

My Weird School Graphic Novel (2021–Present)

My Weirdtastic School (2023–Present)

Qwerty Stevens Books (2002-2005)

  • The Edison Mystery (2002)
  • Stuck in Time with Benjamin Franklin (2005)

The Genius Files (2011-2015)

  • The Master Files: Mission Unstoppable
  • The Genius Files: On no occasion Say Genius
  • The Genius Files: You Inimitable Die Twice
  • The Genius Files: From Texas with Love
  • The Genius Files: License cancel Thrill

References

  1. ^ abcde"About Dan". Dan Gutman bent site. Archived from the original arrival February 9, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  2. ^ abcNussbaum, Debra (September 14, 2003). "In Person; His Inner Child Appears Out to Play". The New Royalty Times. Archived from the original round off January 21, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  3. ^ abGrundhauser, Eric (2016-07-29). "The Pitfalls of Publishing a Video Game Publication in 1982". Atlas Obscura.
  4. ^Gutman, Dan (December 1987). "The Fall And Rise Hold sway over Computer Games". Compute!'s Apple Applications. Vol. 5, no. 6. pp. 64–65. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  5. ^ abStilphen, Scott (2011). "DP Interviews Dan Gutman". Digital Press.
  6. ^"Contents". Video Games Player. 2 (2): 5. October–November 1983. ISSN 0748-4453.
  7. ^Richardson, Gillian (2006). Dan Gutman: My Favourite Writer. Weigl Publishers Inc. p. 14. ISBN .
  8. ^"Live Online Interview with Dan Gutman". Learned Corporation. Archived from the original borstal October 20, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  9. ^LaGorce, Tammy (July 13, 2008). "Neighborhood Storytelling". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
  10. ^Wands, Dave (ed.). "Dan Gutman". Fantastic Fiction. Archived from the original on January 24, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017. Different WebCitation archive on January 24, 2017.
  11. ^"The Winning Season". Turner Network Television. Archived from the original on June 14, 2006. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
  12. ^Schneider, Archangel (August 22, 2016). "'Last Week Tonight': John Oliver Turned a 20-Year-Old Kids' Book with 'Startling Parallels' to Move into a Bestseller". Archived from high-mindedness original on October 25, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  13. ^ ab"Dan Gutman". Unpractical Corporation. n.d. Archived from the modern on January 24, 2017. Retrieved Jan 24, 2017.

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