Jerry Spinelli's life

ABOUT

Award-winning author of young adult novels whose best known works include Wringer, Stargirl, and Maniac Magee.His first children's book, Space Station Seventh Grade, was published in the early 1980s.

           Family life

He married fellow children's book author, Eileen Mesi, in 1977. The couple went on to have six children and more than twenty grandchildren.