Gennifer Choldenko was born in Santa Monica, California, and was the youngest of four kids, all of whom had big mouths. Gennifer spent a lot of her childhood by herself making up words, stories, songs, and jokes, none of which made a lot of sense. After graduating from Brandeis University with a degree in English, she went to work in advertising, but stopped after realising that all of her work was beginning to sound like the that of a big mouth twelve-year-old... At which point she went to Art School, but instead of getting her portfolio together, she wrote her first novel (she does her best work when she's supposed to be doing something else). Read more about Gennifer and her books, including her bestselling AL CAPONE DOES MY... series, at www.choldenko.com or on Twitter: @choldenko
This book is a masterpiece ... wonderfully told and deserves praise galore. The Guardian (Praise for AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS)