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Gordon Korman is...

Not just the author of the Can't Be Happening at series. Masterminds series but is also Macdonald Hall. He wrote this as Born in , he was raised in the author of over eighty other a creative writing assignment for where he lived until he books, ranging from humor to his seventh grade English class. In moved to New York to attend action to poetry for kids and addition to the more than eighty Univerity. He currently lives in teens. He has been writing for books which he has written Long , New York with his nearly thirty years and published independently Mr. Korman is also family. his first book while still a one of the many authors freshman in high school, This collaborating on

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