Gary D. Schmidt is an author who lives on a farm in Alto, Michigan with his wife and six kids. He is a professor of English at Calvin College. Schmidt has written several award winning novels for young adults, including Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, which won the Newbery and Printz Awards in 2005, and The Wednesday Wars, which won the Newbery Award in 2008. He finds inspiration from wanting something whole in his life amidst the messiness, and writes with generosity, looking for goodness in the world.

1. Gary D. Schmidt
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2. Personal Life
• Married his wife Anne in
1979
• Together they have 6 kids
• Lives on a farm in Alto
Michigan (where he chops
his own firewood and feeds
the stray cats that pass
through.)
• Professor of English at
Calvin College

3. Career Highlights
• Switched his
major to English
his senior year
rather than go on
to law school
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy- Newbery
and Printz Awards in 2005
• Wednesday Wars- Newbery Award in 2008
“That’ll do.”

4. Okay For Now
• “He finds that he wants one thing in his
life that’s whole, one thing that’s
complete because everything else in his
life is a mess, the quest is both external
and internal because what does it mean
to be a whole person?”

5. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

6. The Great Stone Face

7. bibliography
"I think that his writing is also generous. It doesn’t avoid suffering and
sadness, but it’s always looking for the goodness of the world, the
abundance of kindness and love and beauty.” — Susan Felch
•The Sin Eater (Dutton Publishers;
New York; 1996)
•William Bradford: Plymouth's
Faithful Pilgrim (Eerdmans Publishing
Company; Grand Rapids; 1999)
•Anson's Way (Clarion Books; New
York; 1999)
•Ciaran: The Tale of a Saint of
Ireland (Eerdmans Publishing
Company; Grand Rapids, MI; 2000)
•Mara's Stories (Henry Holt; New
York; 2001)
•Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster
Boy (New York; Clarion Books; 2004)
•In God's Hands (Jewish Lights
Publications; Woodstock, Vermont;
2005)
•First Boy (Henry Holt; New York;
2005)
•The Wednesday Wars (Clarion Books;
New York; 2007)
•Trouble (Clarion Books; New York;
2008)
•Okay for Now (Clarion Books; New
York; 2011)
•What Came from the Stars (Clarion
Books; New York; 2012)

8. MLA
• Anderson, Myrna D. "Calvin College - Spark - Spring
2006 - Gary Schmidt." Editorial.Spark 2006: n. pag.
Web. 13 Feb. 2013.
<http://www.calvin.edu/publications/spark/2006/
spring/schmidt.htm>.
• "Gary Schmidt | Two-time Newbery Honor-Winning
Author." Gary Schmidt | Two-time Newbery
Honor-Winning Author. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publishing Company, n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.
• "Gary D. Schmidt." Wikipedia. Wikimedia
Foundation, 13 Feb. 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.