Then, in Jacks own words, 'The **** hit the fan' and the F.B.I.

Once there they hung out at the Chelsea hotel and Gantos carried on dreaming about college.

With an English eccentric captain on board they set off to the big city. Croix he met a drug smuggler and was offered a chance to make 10 000 dollars by sailing to New York with 2,000 pounds of hash. He soon realized that construction was not his forté and started saving for college. Gantos began collecting anecdotes in grade school and later gathered them into stories.Īfter his senior year in high school (where he lived in a welfare motel) he moved to a Caribbean island (St Croix) and began to train as a builder. Born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and raised in Barbados and South Florida, Mr. The seeds for Jack Gantos' writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his sister's diary and decided he could write better than she could. Gantos was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania to son of construction superintendent John Gantos and banker Elizabeth (Weaver) Gantos. Gantos has won a number of awards, including the Newbery, the Newbery Honor, the Scott O'Dell Award, the Printz Honor, and the Sibert Honor from the American Library Association, and he has been a finalist for the National Book Award.

Jack Gantos is an American author of children's books renowned for his portrayal of fictional Joey Pigza, a boy with ADHD, and many other well known characters such as Rotten Ralph, Jack Henry, Jack Gantos (memoirs) and others.

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