Altogether, author Korman has sold over 25 million printed copies of his books over the career of three decades. By the time, he completed his schooling from the Thronhill high school, Ontario, he had already written and published a total of 5 books. At that time, author Korman was just 14 years old. The novel was eventually published by them in the year 1978. So, when he finished writing the assignment, he mailed it to the Scholastic publishers. At that time, author Korman appointed as the monitor of his class by the Scholastic Book Club. The book was titled as ‘This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall’ and became the first book of the successful Macdonald Hall series. Author Korman was one of the volunteers and the manuscript of the novel went on to become his first book. It was the first time that Hamilton had taken up the role as an English teacher and needed some students to volunteer for writing a novel for the semester.

When he was in the 7th grade at the German Public School, he had an English teacher named Hamilton, who was also a field and track coach for his class.

The first book that Korman attempted to write was at the age of 12. His credential also included a degree in drama and visual writing and a minor one in the television and the picture. Author Korman studied the subjects of film and film writing and then obtained his BFA in the year 1985 from the New York University. After that, he shifted to the United States in order to join college at the New York University. Korman studied first at the German Mills School and then at the Thornlea Public School located in Thornhill, Ontario. He spent most of his growing up days in Thornoll, Ontario, located to the north of Toronto. Author Korman was born on Octoin Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In all, he has written more than 85 novels in his writing career so far.

Most of his books are written under the young adult and children’s book genres.

Gordon Korman is one of the prominent Canadian-American authors who has written some of the very successful novels in his writing career. The Black Book of Buried Secrets (Companion Book) (By:Rick Riordan) The 39 Clues Collection (With: Rick Riordan,Peter Lerangis,Jude Watson) Into the Gauntlet (By:Margaret Peterson Haddix)

The Zucchini Warriors by Gordon Korman