Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian American 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. Early life Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he lived until 1970. He grew up in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) and attended German Mills Public School and public high school at Thornlea Secondary School. He moved to the United States to attend college 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 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. Works Standalone books I Want to Go Home! (1981) Our Man Weston (1982) No Coins, Please (1984) Don't Care High (1985) Son of Interflux (1986) A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag (1987) Radio 5th Grade (1989) Losing Joe's Place (1990) The Twinkie Squad (1992) The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993) Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road (1994) The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1996) Liar, Liar Pants on Fire (1997) The Sixth Grade Nickname Game (1998) No More Dead Dogs (2000) Maxx Comedy: The Funniest Kid in America (2003) Jake, Reinvented (2003) Born To Rock (2006) Schooled (2007) The Juvie Three (2008) Pop (2009) Slacker (2016) Restart (2017) What's His Face? (2018) The Unteachables (2019) Level 13: A Slacker novel (2019) Notorious (2019) War Stories (2020) Unplugged (2021) Linked (2021) Operation Do-Over (2022) The Fort (2022) Series Macdonald Hall series This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall