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Dan Gutman


Born
in New York, The United States
October 19, 1955

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Genre
Children's Books, Nonfiction, Fiction


The author of over 80 books in a little over a decade of writing, Dan Gutman has written on topics from computers to baseball. Beginning his freelance career as a nonfiction author dealing mostly with sports for adults and young readers, Gutman has concentrated on juvenile fiction since 1995. His most popular titles include the time-travel sports book Honus and Me and its sequels, and a clutch of baseball books, including The Green Monster from Left Field. From hopeful and very youthful presidential candidates to stunt men, nothing is off limits in Gutman's fertile imagination. As he noted on his author Web site, since writing his first novel, They Came from Centerfield, in 1994, he has been hooked on fiction. "It was fun to write, kids lov ...more

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I was thinking--what is the biggest problem facing the world today? Terrorism? The financial crisis? Poverty? Drugs? Crime?

No. The biggest problem facing the world is the world itself. Because if we mess up Earth to the point that humans can’t live on it anymore, none of those other problems are going to matter.

Well, I hate to tell you this, but we are messing up the Earth big time. We’ve got to d Read more of this blog post »
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“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”
― Dan Gutman, From Texas with Love
tags: thankfulness
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“Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.”
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“A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.”
― Dan Gutman, Miss Daisy Is Crazy!
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