Jon Scieszka was born on September 8, 1954 in Flint, Michigan. He is the second oldest of six boys. He calls himself the "nicest" of the group.
went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana, Albion College in Michigan, and Columbia University, New York, where he got a M.F.A. in fiction.
Before Jon became a full-time writer he worked as a lifeguard, painted factories, houses, and apartments, wrote for magazines, and taught elementary school in New York for ten years as a 1st grade assistant, a 2nd grade homeroom teacher, and a computer, math, science and history teacher in 3rd -8th grade.
In 2002, Scieszka founded the Guys Read literacy program to "help boys become better readers, better students, better guys."
Now he's married, has two kids and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
His favorite things to read are fairytales, myths, legends, comic books, graphic novels, history, poems, novels, science books, picture books, short stories, newspapers, funny bits, codes, hieroglyphics, encyclopedias, dictionaries, subway ads, sides of cereal boxes, matchbook covers, mattress tags, and any little scraps of paper with writing on them.
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