Jerry Spinelli
Growing up, Jerry Spinelli was really serious about baseball. He played on the Green Sox little league team in his hometown of Norristown, Pennsylvania, and dreamed of playing for the majors, preferable shortstop for the New York Yankees.
One night during High School Spinelli watched the football game win an exiting game against one of the best team in the country.
Spinelli lives with his wife, Eileen, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He wrote Who Put That Hair In My Toothbrush.
. In 1991, he won the Newbery Award for Maniac Magee, and in 1998, Wringer was named a Newbery Honor book. Whenever students ask him where he gets his ideas, he replies, "From you. You're the funny ones." Cheers for Jerry Spinelli and you!