Gordon Korman Explained

Gordon Korman
Birth Date:23 October 1963
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma Mater:New York University (BFA)
Occupation:Author
Nationality:Canadian, American
Period:1975–present
Genre:Realistic fiction, adventure fiction, young adult fiction
Notable Works:
  • Macdonald Hall
  • Swindle
  • The Toilet Paper Tigers
  • The 39 Clues (contributor)

Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian author of 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]

Early life

Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he lived until 1970.[4] 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] [5]

He moved to the United States to attend university at New York University where he studied film and film-writing.[6] 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

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.[7] 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 105 books,[8] with his hundredth being The Fort. His books have sold more than 35 million copies in a career that has spanned four decades.

Works

Standalone books

Series

Macdonald Hall series

See main article: Macdonald Hall.

Bugs Potter

Jeremy Bloom

Monday Night Football Club

Slapshots series

Nose Pickers series

Island series

See main article: Island (novel series).

Son of the Mob

Dive series

On the Run series

Kidnapped series

The 39 Clues

See main article: The 39 Clues. (Series shared and all books written by different authors)

Swindle series

Titanic series

Ungifted series

Everest series

Hypnotists series

Slacker series

Masterminds 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.[12]

Swindle was adapted into a movie that aired on Nickelodeon in 2013.

Three Macdonald Hall series books were TV adapted as the "Bruno & Boots" miniseries, with Go Jump in the Pool, This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, and The War with Mr. Wizzle (as The Wizzle War). It starred Jonny Gray, Callan Potter and Peter Keleghan. It debuted on April 1, 2016, firstly with Go Jump In The Pool, on the Canadian network YTV.[13] The other two adaptations aired on YTV the next year on the same day.

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

Awards and recognition

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gordon Korman (home) . gordonkorman.com . February 2, 2011.
  2. Web site: Scholastic Canada | Gordon Korman .
  3. Web site: GORDON KORMAN :: HOME. scholastic.ca. August 10, 2016.
  4. Web site: Gordon Korman . Gardner . Suzanne . January 5, 2012 . thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Historica Canada . June 7, 2023 .
  5. News: Prodigy or precocious? . https://web.archive.org/web/20090407060645/http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/611407. April 7, 2009. Zlomislic. Diana . April 1, 2009 . . March 6, 2017.
  6. Web site: Biography: Gordon Korman . scholastic.com . Scholastic Teachers . February 2, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100807023037/http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1578 . August 7, 2010 .
  7. Web site: About Gordon Korman – Gordon Korman. 2021-05-29. gordonkorman.com.
  8. Web site: Gordon Korman . 2022-07-03. Scholastic Canada.
  9. Web site: Reviewed by Gordan Korman in New York Journal of Books.
  10. Web site: Old School by Gordon Korman . Goodreads . 21 July 2024.
  11. Book: Gordon Korman. Bernice Korman. The last-place sports poems of Jeremy Bloom: a collection of poems about winning, losing, and being a good sport (sometimes). March 6, 2017. October 1, 1996. Scholastic. 978-0-590-25516-5.
  12. Web site: Monday Night Football Club. March 6, 2017. FictionDB.
  13. News: YTV decides to Go Jump in the Pool! with Aircraft. kidscreen. July 30, 2015. Julianna Cummins. November 9, 2015.
  14. Web site: Niki . B. . Stellar Award: Gordon Korman . StellarAward.ca . February 2, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706204129/http://www.stellaraward.ca/author.php?id=21 . July 6, 2011 .
  15. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20060522124717/http://www.learningwithliterature.ualberta.ca/manyoungreader.htm. May 22, 2006. Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award (1991–2004).. Manitoba School Library Audio Visual Association. March 6, 2017.
  16. Web site: 1999 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults . Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Library Association (ALA) . February 2, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605063013/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/popularpaperback/annotations/1999popularpaperbacks.cfm . June 5, 2011 .
  17. Web site: 2001 Popular Paperbacks . YALSA. ALA . February 2, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605063002/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/popularpaperback/2001popularpaperbacks.cfm . June 5, 2011 .
  18. Web site: 2003 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults: Annotated List . YALSA. ALA . February 2, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110117034635/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/annotations/2003toptenbest.cfm . January 17, 2011 .
  19. Web site: YRCA Past Winners . Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) . February 20, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012133547/http://www.pnla.org/yrca-past-winners . October 12, 2016 . dead .
  20. Web site: Best Books for Young Adults Annotated List 2004 . YALSA. ALA . February 2, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110117034206/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/annotations/2004bestbooks.cfm . January 17, 2011 .
  21. Web site: Charlie May Simon Award (Grades 4–6) . Arkansas State Library (ASL) . February 20, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140315215447/http://www.library.arkansas.gov/ChildrensBookAwards/Pages/CharlieMaySimonAward.aspx . March 15, 2014 .
  22. http://www.library.arkansas.gov/ChildrensBookAwards/Documents/Winners-%20Simon%20Award%20Winners-%20web.pdf "Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Winners, 1971 to Current"
  23. James D. Watts Jr., "Author Gordon Korman's career started in seventh grade", Tulsa World, May 5, 2016.
  24. Web site: Young Hoosier Book Award. March 15, 2021. March 9, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160309054109/http://www.ilfonline.org/page/yhba. dead.

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