| Dan Gutman | |
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| Born | October 19, 1955 Harrisburg Pa |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genres | Humor |
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www.dangutman.com |
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Dan Gutman (born October 19, 1955) is an American author from New Jersey. A prolific writer, Gutman has written 80 books, both fictional and non-fictional, under publishers including Penguin Books, Macmillan, Scholastic Press, and HarperCollins. Many of his books revolve around baseball.
His best known work is the & Me series of children's novels, also known as the Baseball Card Adventures, which started with Honus & Me. Each book in the series revolves around a child traveling back in time to meet a baseball legend; the first work was based on the premise of a boy finding a Honus Wagner T206 baseball card in an attic of his neighbor. Further books in the series feature Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Dorothy "Mickey" Maguire (the main character, Joe Stoshack, was supposed to meet Mickey Mantle, but there was an accident and he went back to the times of the AAGPBL instead), Abner Doubleday, Satchel Paige, Jim Thorpe, and Ray Chapman. According to Dan's official website, he currently is writing another addition to the series entitled Roberto & Me. The original story, Honus & Me, was made into a Turner Network Television made-for-TV picture entitled The Winning Season, starring Matthew Modine.
He also wrote over twenty books in the My Weird School series,[1] as well as the Million Dollar series, about children who gets the chance to win a million dollars in various sporting events.
In addition, Gutman was also briefly a syndicated newspaper columnist and videogame magazine editor in the 1980s.
A graduate of Rutgers University, Gutman lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey with his wife and two children.[1]