Peter Zelchenko's List: Nepo

• Korman was born in 1963 in Montreal, Quebec, where his father worked as an accountant and his mother wrote an "Erma Bombeck-type column" for a local newspaper, as he told Bennetts.

• Susan Atwater-Rhodes,a vice principal of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School and William Rhodes, a public policy consultant.
• Concord-Carlisle High

• the squattocracy

• 1994-95 school year in France as an AFS (American Field Service) student
• Ridgefield, CT
• wrote Postcards from France as a high-school junior
• pretty typical
• Fairfield County, Connecticut
• I lived in a nice house in an historic New England town with my parents, my younger brother, and a Labrador retriever. My older sister, an attorney, lived in Chicago with her husband and baby daughter. I had doting grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
• I had a constitutional right as an American to want more
• I told my parents. They agonized for about fifteen minutes over losing me for a whole year, then sent in their check.

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• His father (David, Sr.) was a steel salesman, and his mother (Barbara) was the organist at a local church.
• I was almost always happy.

• 1958 graduate of Lakewood High School
• Mr. Pilkey was employed as a sales engineer at Republic Steel (later LTV Steel) in Cleveland for over 30 years. He then started his own business, Pilkey Steel Services Inc., which he operated for seven years.
• son, David M. Pilkey Jr. (Sayuri) of Washington
• William B. Pilkey III of Washington, and Peter J. Pilkey (Claudia) of Brecksville.
• William B. and Virginia (nee Murray) Pilkey.

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• At times, it's frustrating to read the self-pity of a young  woman who has so much going for her
• When her mother buys her expensive shoes, all I can think about is the  last time I could afford Payless.

• born in 1986 and graduated from high school with the class of 2003 in Oregon
• "Well, it's not the guy we thought it was going to be." Phillip   Margolin was originally supposed to teach the class.

  • What school is this? Did Margolin's kid go here?

  • Phillip Margolin was supposed to teach the class? That's pretty good.
• "Well, his name is Kevin   Sampsell, and he's really weird."
• The spring of my freshman year, I started sending Kevin journal   entries I was writing during class. He said,   "Oh, this is fantastic. This is great. I'm going to make a chapbook out of these.   You'll be a small press star, and I'll make millions!" He didn't actually say that, but   maybe he was thinking it.
• Then, sometime in February, an author named Joe   Weisberg called Powell's, and he talked to Kevin. He said he wanted to set   up an event at Powell's. Kevin said, "What's your book about?" He said, "Well, it's a narrative in the voice of a sixteen-year-old   boy. It's about his sophomore year of high school." [Editor's note: The book is called 10th   Grade.] Kevin said, "Really? There's   this girl in Portland who wrote a book about high school. You should read it."   He sent Joe a copy of the chapbook. Joe read it, and he sent it to his agent   with a three-word note that said, "This is awesome."

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• I'm like a Powell's ambassador to visiting authors.
• This way of life gives me connections. Some would say it's an unfair advantage for someone trying to break into the book world, being able to meet numerous authors, editors, publishers, and publicists.