Gordon Korman


Gordon Korman is a Canadian author of children's and young adult fiction books. 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.
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Early life

Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he lived until 1970. He grew up in Thornhill, Ontario and attended German Mills Public School and public high school at Thornlea Secondary School.
He moved to the United States to attend university at New York University where he studied film and film-writing. Korman received a BFA from New York University in 1985; with a degree in dramatic visual writing and a minor in motion picture and television.

Career

Korman wrote his first book when he was 14 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 105 books, with his hundredth being The Fort. His books have sold over 35 million copies.

Works

Standalone books

Series

Macdonald Hall series

''Bugs Potter''

  • Who is Bugs Potter?
  • ''Bugs Potter LIVE at Nickaninny''

''Jeremy Bloom''

  • The D− Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About School, Homework, and Life
  • '' The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About Winning, Losing, and Being a Good Sport ''

''Monday Night Football Club''

  • The Quarterback Exchange: I Was John Elway
  • Running Back Conversion: I Was Barry Sanders
  • Super Bowl Switch: I Was Dan Marino
  • Heavy Artillery: I Was Junior Seau
  • Ultimate Scoring Machine: I Was Jerry Rice
  • ''NFL Rules! Bloopers, Pranks, Upsets, and Touchdowns''

Slapshots series

  • The Stars From Mars
  • The Dream Team
  • The Face-off Phony
  • Cup Crazy
  • *4-in-1 ''Slapshots: The Complete Collection''

Nose Pickers series

  • Nose Pickers from Outer Space!
  • Planet of the Nose Pickers
  • Your Mummy Is a Nose Picker
  • Invasion of the Nose Pickers
  • *4-in-1 ''The Ultimate Nose-Picker Collection''

Island series

  • Shipwreck
  • Survival
  • Escape
  • *3-in-1 ''Island Trilogy Bind-Up Book''

Son of the Mob

Son of the Mob

Dive series

  • The Discovery
  • The Deep
  • ''The Danger''

''On the Run'' series

  • Chasing the Falconers
  • The Fugitive Factor
  • Now You See Them, Now You Don't
  • The Stowaway Solution
  • Public Enemies
  • ''Hunting the Hunter''

Kidnapped series

  • The Abduction
  • The Search
  • ''The Rescue''

''The 39 Clues''

Swindle series

Titanic series

  • Unsinkable
  • Collision Course
  • ''S.O.S ''

Gifted series

Ungifted Supergifted
  • ''Hypergifted''

Everest series

The Contest The Climb
  • ''The Summit''

Hypnotists series

The Hypnotists Memory Maze
  • ''The Dragonfly Effect''

Slacker series

  • Slacker
  • ''Level 13: A Slacker Novel''

Masterminds series

Masterminds Masterminds: Criminal Destiny
  • ''Masterminds: Payback''

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.
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. 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. 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