![]() ![]() ![]() My project became This Can’t Be Happening At Macdonald Hall.” It was more structured than that sounds-we gave him an outline the first week and then a chapter a week. He said we could work on whatever we wanted. He was a good teacher, but he’d never taught English. ![]() They ran out of English teachers, but they had extra coaches, so we got the track coach. “When I was in seventh grade the track coach had to teach English,” said Korman, an engaging speaker with a shaved head. But his inaugural effort, the 144-page boarding school comedy This Can’t Be Happening At Macdonald Hall, was rooted in Korman’s own reality. Korman has written about a wide variety of precocious youths in his career: a 12-year-old who turns out to be the world’s greatest natural hypnotist, a group of teen and tween shipwreck survivors and a whole middle school worth of aspiring athletes, science prodigies and budding business tycoons. Of course the Toronto transplant did have a bit of a head start- he wrote his first book when he was 12 and it was published while he was a freshman in high school. Whatever the actual number of books, it’s a lot, especially when you consider that Korman, who resides in Great Neck with his wife and children, is just 51. Yahoo! Answers sets the number at 83, but its unclear if that includes his newest, Masterminds, a trilogy that launched in February. Sitting in a quiet sushi restaurant he guessed it was around 80. Gordon Korman cannot say exactly how many books he’s written. ![]()
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