Gordon Korman was born in Montreal in 1963. Gordon lived there until he was in grade 3, when he moved to Toronto. In grade 5 he moved to Downsview, and now Gordon is living in New York, writing books from his own imagination. Although he lives in New York, Gordon still visits his mother in Thornhill, Ontario. He thinks that his home is very stimulating, warm and supportive. There, his mother types his work and does poetry with him. The first book Gordon wrote was This Can't Be Happening At MacDonald Hall, which was published in 1978 as a grade 7 English project. The book sold 22,000 copies in the first 6 months. He was also a class monitor for ARROW and TAB in grade 7. In Gordon's early years he read a lot of picture books which he didn't feel was very important.Gordon is also an only child in his family. Gordon had confidence in the selling of his first book, and one of his favorites is The Twinkie Squad. One of his latest books is Why Did The Underwear Cross The Road. Gordon is a very successful writer, probably because his style is humor. His books and him are funny, and he gets it from sitcoms and movies. Gordon always likes to talk about his books when he's writing and that's probably why he doesn't make many friends, but he doesn't seem lonely. Gordon got his writing skills from a dramatic writing program in New York, and he made some friends there too Some characters in his novels are Bruno & Boots, Rudy Millar, Dave Potter(Bugs) and Sydney Weston. His books are action-filled and enormously funny in some parts. Gordon feels that everyone should be treated equally, that's what he might say when he visits schools and libraries to talk with children. Gordon's future plans are to keep writing children's books and become successful outside of Canada. He thinks that, if he keeps it up , he might just get his books to become a TV series or be made into movies. Gordon's first (and very deserved) award was the Air Canada Award for most promising young Canadian writer, which he won in 1981.