Born: March
04, 1966
Cleveland,
Ohio,
United
States
of
America Current
Home: Eugene,
Oregon,
United
States
of
America.
I
started
writing
books
when I
was in
elementary
school.
I was
the
class
clown,
and I
was
constantly
getting
in
trouble
for
making
other
kids
laugh.
In the
second
grade I
learned
how to
make the
most
glorious
noises
by
pressing
my hands
firmly
into my
face and
blowing
really
hard.
Soon I
graduated
to more
sophisticated
forms of
levity,
like
seeing
how many
crayons
I could
stick up
my nose
at one
time,
burping
the
alphabet,
and
playing
“Onward
Christian
Soldiers”
on my
armpit.
(I went
to
parochial
school.)
As you
might
imagine,
my
teachers
were not
very
supportive
of my
particular
brand of
humor.
At first,
they
started
sending
me out
into the
hallway.
After a
while, I
was
spending
so much
time out
in the
hall
that
they put
a little
desk out
there
for me.
I was
the only
kid in
school
with my
own
private
desk in
the
hallway,
and it
was at
this
desk
that I
had my
first
experience
creating
books.
Every
day
before
classes
began I
would
make
sure
that my
hallway
desk was
stocked
full of
paper,
crayons,
pencils,
and
magic
markers.
Then at
some
point
during
the day,
I would
do
something
really
silly
and
disruptive.
. . and
get
caught.
My
teacher
would
stop
everything,
look me
straight
in the
eye,
point a
bony
finger
at the
door,
and
shout,
“Mr.
Pilkey —
OUT!”
There in
the
hallway,
I would
sit down
at my
desk,
take out
my
drawing
supplies,
and
start
creating.
In the
beginning,
I only
drew
pictures,
but as
time
went on
(my
hallway
desk
followed
me
through
the end
of fifth
grade) I
began
making
up
stories,
too. I
used to
staple
sheets
of paper
together
and make
my own
comic
books. I
invented
a whole
slew of
superheroes,
including
“The
Amazing
Captain
Underpants,”
who flew
around
the city
giving
wedgies
to all
the bad
guys.
These
comic
books
were a
real hit
with my
classmates;
however,
they
weren't
too
popular
with my
teachers.
I
remember
one
teacher
who,
after
furiously
ripping
up one
of my
stories,
told me
I'd
better
start
taking
life a
little
more
seriously,
because
I
couldn't
spend
the rest
of my
days
making
silly
books.
Fortunately
I wasn't
a very
good
listener.
BOOKS &
COLLECTIONS
BY THIS
AUTHOR
CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS
SERIES
RICKY RICOTTA'S SERIES
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