Michael Gerber (parodist)
Michael Gerber (born June 14, 1969) is best known as the author of the Barry Trotter series, Sunday Times best-selling parodies of the Harry Potter books.[1] Before becoming a novelist, Gerber contributed humor to The Yale Record,[2] The New Yorker,[3]The Atlantic,[4] The New York Times,[5] The Wall Street Journal, Slate, NPR and Saturday Night Live, among many other venues. He is an alumnus of Yale and Oak Park River Forest High School.[6]
While an undergraduate, Gerber restarted The Yale Record, America's oldest humor magazine.[7] Gerber served as President of The Record's alumni organization from 1994 to 2014, developing an editorial and publishing model for the magazine. As a result, he is frequently contacted by student editors from all around the world, and has most recently worked with students at DePaul University, Ohio State University, Cambridge University, and UCLA.
Bibliography
- Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody (2002) ISBN 978-0-575-07454-5
- Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel (2003) ISBN 978-0-575-07558-0
- Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse (2004) ISBN 978-0-575-07630-3
- The Chronicles of Blarnia: The Lying Bitch in the Wardrobe (2005) ISBN 978-0-575-07816-1
- Freshman (2006) ISBN 978-0-7868-3850-9
- Sophomore (2006) ISBN 978-1-890470-03-6
- Our Kampf: Collected Humor 1989-2004 (2006) ISBN 978-1-890470-04-3
- A Christmas Peril (2008) ISBN 978-1-890470-05-0
- Life After Death for Beginners (2010) ISBN 978-1-890470-06-7
- Downturn Abbey (2012) ISBN 978-1-890470-10-4
References
- ↑ Bulman, Colin (2007). Creative Writing: A Guide And Glossary to Fiction Writing. Polity. pp. 158–. ISBN 9780745636870. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ↑ The Yale Record. New Haven: Yale Record. November 1990. p. 3.
- ↑ Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz, September 18, 2000. "Double-Diamond, Highest Difficulty," The New Yorker, p. 94.
- ↑ Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz, August 1999. "The Periodic Table of Rejected Elements," The Atlantic, Vol. 284, No. 2, p. 43.
- ↑ Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz, "Harry Potter and the Errant Golf Cart," The New York Times. New York, June 24, 2003.
- ↑ Oak Park River Forest Tabula Yearbook. Oak Park, Illinois. 1987. p. 134-5, 213.
- ↑ Gerber, Michael. "The Yale Record: A short history of its rise, fall, and rise again." 2007. Accessed at http://www.scribd.com/doc/204108707/The-Yale-Record-Its-rise-fall-and-rise-again on February 2, 2014.