Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. August 24, 1956
Birthday: August 24
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist...
source: "The Dragon's Egg" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 5, 2011.
topic: Book, Kids, Long, Unexpected Things, Contemporary Literature