Michael Northrop
Michael Northrop is a writer living in New York City. He is the author of Scholastic’s new multi-platform series, TombQuest. Book 1: The Book of the Dead will appear in February 2015. I am also the author of four young adult novels: Gentlemen (2009), which earned a Publishers Weekly Flying Start citation; Trapped (2011), an Indie Next List selection; Rotten (2013), one of the Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of the Year; and my new one, Surrounded By Sharks (2014), one of E! Online’s Best Summer Reads. His first middle grade novel, Plunked, was named one of the best children’s books of the year by both the New York Public Library and Bank Street and was selected by NPR for its Backseat Book Club.
Northrop was originally from Salisbury, Connecticut, a small town in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains. It was a great place to grow up (to the extent that he did), falling out of trees, shooting BB guns at soda cans (and his brother), and kicking field goals for his high school football team.
Three random facts about Northrop:
1) He is technically dyslexic.
2) He once stepped on a yellow jacket nest and was stung approx. 75 times.
3) According to family lore, he is distantly related to Jonathan Swift, who wrote Gulliver’s Travels.
Three of his favorite things:
1) Watership Down (book)
2) Jaws (movie)
3) Spicy tuna hand rolls (food)
Northrop was originally from Salisbury, Connecticut, a small town in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains. It was a great place to grow up (to the extent that he did), falling out of trees, shooting BB guns at soda cans (and his brother), and kicking field goals for his high school football team.
Three random facts about Northrop:
1) He is technically dyslexic.
2) He once stepped on a yellow jacket nest and was stung approx. 75 times.
3) According to family lore, he is distantly related to Jonathan Swift, who wrote Gulliver’s Travels.
Three of his favorite things:
1) Watership Down (book)
2) Jaws (movie)
3) Spicy tuna hand rolls (food)