My Weirder School (12-Book Box Set)

Dan Gutman

Dan Gutman (born October 19, 1955) is an American writer, primarily of children's fiction. His works include the Baseball Card Adventures children's book series that began with Honus & Me, and the My Weird School series. After moving to New York City, Gutman worked as a magazine editor and columnist. While editor-in-chief of pornographic magazine Stag, he became a fan of video games and launched a video game magazine. Gutman became the first employee of Video Game Player (later Computer Games) in 1982. He 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." His column appeared regularly in various computer-related magazines, such as Genie Livewire.