Gary D. Schmidt

Born: April 15, 1957

Gary D. Schmidt is a Professor of English at Calvin College, where he teaches courses in writing, medieval literature, and children’s literature. He is the author of the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor-winning novel Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (2004), the Newbery Honor- winning The Wednesday Wars (2007), and Okay for Now, a National Book Award finalist in 2011. He lives on a two-hundred-year-old farm in Alto, Michigan.

Gary D. Schmidt

Books18

Almost Time

Styx and Stones

A Day at the Beach

Jupiter Rising

The Labors of Hercules Beal

Just Like That

Pay Attention, Carter Jones

So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom

Orbiting Jupiter

Been There, Done That: Writing Stories from Real Life

Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert

What Came from the Stars

Okay for Now

Trouble

The Wednesday Wars

First Boy

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Straw into gold