Allan Woodrow (author)
Allan Woodrow (born November 6, 1964) is an American author of children's literature, mostly middle grade fiction. His books include The Curse of the Werepenguin, Class Dismissed and The Pet War. His first book, the Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless, debuted in 2011 and was published by HarperCollins Children's Books. Biography Woodrow has written more than thirty books for children. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and was raised in Okemos, Michigan, a suburb of East Lansing. Allan attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then became an advertising copywriter in Detroit, Michigan. He later continued his advertising career in St. Louis and Chicago, where he met and married the former Lauren Cohn. They currently reside outside Chicago and have two children. Woodrow began writing children's literature in 2009, and by the end of the year had sold his first book, the Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless, a graphic novel illustrated by Aaron Blecha. Allan wrote The Curse of the Werepenguin trilogy (Viking, 2019-2021), and The Liberty Falls Elementary School series which includes Field Tripped (Scholastic, 2018), Unschooled (Scholastic, 2017), and Class Dismissed (Scholastic, 2015). He is also the author of The Pet War (Scholastic, 2013) and