My Teacher Glows in the Dark by Bruce Coville

He won first in 1992 for the novel My Teacher Glows in the Dark, in 2000 for I Was a 6th Grade Alien, and in 2006 for producing an audio adaptation of Robert A. Awards Ĭoville has been the recipient of three Golden Duck Awards. Ĭoville is also the co-founder of Full Cast Audio, an audiobook company devoted to recording full-cast, unabridged copies of young adult fiction. He has said that even with over 100 books under his belt, it gets harder and harder to write each successive book he's concerned with maintaining his level of quality and not repeating himself. Ĭoville has written over 100 books for young adults, with translations in over a dozen languages. With no set paradigm for writing, Coville has successfully tried everything from writing from a strict outline to 'writing from the seat of my pants.' As of 2015, he uses what he calls an 'ever-expanding outline' where he outlines the beginning and end of a novel, and works to fill in the middle later. Coville knew he wanted to be a writer by his mid-teens, and by age 19 he 'never looked back.' His first book, The Foolish Giant, a picture book illustrated by his wife, Katherine Coville, was published in 1977. He read 'books that made laugh, but also made shiver in terror.' Wanting to impart those sorts of feeling to others is what spurred his love of writing.

Coville is wed to Katherine née Dietz (married when Coville was nineteen), and the two of them have three children: 'a son, Orion, born in 1970 a daughter, Cara, born in 1975 and another son, Adam, born in 1981.' Literature Ĭoville began his love of books as a child, reading ' Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and zillions of comic books'. While waiting to publish his first novel, Coville was employed in a number of professions including toymaker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, assembly line worker, and elementary school teacher working with second grade students and fourth grade students. Growing up in what he called ' farm country', Coville realized his bisexuality in his teens.

Bruce Coville's father (born Arthur Farrington) was adopted by his aunt, where he adopted her surname of Coville.

Coville was first published in 1977 and has written over 100 books.Ĭoville was born on May 16, 1950, in Syracuse, New York, where he resided as of November 2012.

Bruce Farrington Coville ( / ˈ k oʊ v əl/, born May 16, 1950) is an author of young adult fiction.

My Teacher Glows in the Dark by Bruce Coville