Jerry Spinelli is an amazing american Author of kids novels. He is best known for his books Maniac Magee, Star girl, and Wringer. He was born in 1941, still alive today living in West Chester Pennsylvania, with his wife Eileen Spinelli. He had also been blessed with 6 children that are now out of the house with their own families. As a child Spinelli wanted to become a cowboy, then a major league baseball player. After those dreams ended, he joined his local high school football team, he wrote a poem about his teams first win that had soon been published into the news paper, after that he decided that his real dream is now to become a writer.