Dan Gutman
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October 19, 1955 New York City |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genres | Humor |
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www.dangutman.com | |
Dan P. Gutman (born October 19, 1955) is an American author from New Jersey whose works have been published by several publishers, including Penguin Books, Macmillan, Scholastic Press, and HarperCollins.
His best known works are the Baseball Card Adventures children's book series which started off with Honus & Me. Each book in the series revolves around a child traveling back in time to meet a baseball legend; the first work is based on the premise of a boy finding a Honus Wagner T206 baseball card in the attic of his neighbor. Further books in the series feature Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Dorothy Maguire, Abner Doubleday, Satchel Paige, Jim Thorpe, Ray Chapman, Roberto Clemente, and Ted Williams. The original story, Honus & Me, was made into a Turner Network Television made-for-TV picture entitled The Winning Season, starring Matthew Modine.[1]
A graduate of Rutgers University, Gutman lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey with his wife and two children.[2]
Pre-Author Life
Gutman was a columnist fifteen years before he started to write books. According to a 2004 online interview with scholastic.com, he started a videogame magazine in 1981. Gutman said, "I started a magazine about video games and suddenly I was an expert in video games. I started writing about them and computers. All for grownups. It took me a long time to realize that writing for grownups was not my thing. It took me a long time to realize that what I was good at was writing for kids." [3] His column appeared regularly in various computer-related magazines, such as Genie Livewire.
Works
He has written over twenty books in the My Weird School series,[2] as well as the Million Dollar series, about children who get a chance to win a million dollars in various sporting events. He also wrote The Genius Files book series which is now on the New York times best seller list at number 10, as well as "The Homework Machine" about four children who use a machine to do their homework.
He is also the author of the Baseball Card Adventures series, of which the final book is to be released in 2015. The series centres on a boy, Joe Stoshack who, upon touching old photographs or baseball cards, can travel back in time to when the card was made.
References
- ↑ "The Winning Season". TNT. Retrieved 2012-02-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 LaGorce, Tammy. "Neighborhood Storytelling", The New York Times, July 13, 2008. Accessed July 29, 2008. "Dan Gutman, 52, of Haddonfield, N.J., and the author of sports-themed books and the “My Weird School” series, with titles like “Mrs. Dole Is Out of Control,” for HarperCollins, said he visited up to 60 schools a year to gather material, including the Scotch Plains Fanwood school district."
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External links
- Gutman's official web site, including a complete list of published works
- Dan Gutman Interview at BookReviewsAndMore.ca
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