Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Though he had lots of interests and aspirations in high school, he credits his ninth-grade English teacher, who challenged him to write a story a month for extra credit, with nurturing his sense of himself as writer.

No years of toiling in anonymity for Shusterman — within a year of graduation from college at UC Irvine, he had landed both a book deal and a job working on a movie script, and his life as a full-time writer — of young-adult literature, TV shows music, stage plays, short films, even games — had begun.

Shusterman's books for teens, including The Schwa Was Here, Everlost, and Unwind, have won numerous national awards. His latest book, Antsy Does Time, is a companion title to The Schwa Was Here.

Shusterman lives with his family in Southern California.

Books by This Author

Antsy Does Time

By: Neal Shusterman
Age Level: Middle Grade
Gunnar Umlaut says he only has six months to live. So eighth-grader Anthony "Antsy" Bonano does the only thing he can think of to help-he gives Gunnar a month of his own life. This symbolic gesture is soon copied by everyone at school, but will it make a difference, especially if Gunnar isn't telling the truth?

Everlost

By: Neal Shusterman
Age Level: Young Adult
Nick and Allie head toward the light after a head-on car accident, but the teens — strangers to each other — collide again and don't quite make it. They end up in Everlost, and learn from other inhabitants about their ghostly new existence as Afterlights and the dangers of this alternative hereafter.

Full Tilt

By: Neal Shusterman
Age Level: Middle Grade
Blake is a cautious young man who finds himself in the middle of a nightmare when he is forced to survive seven harrowing amusement park rides in an effort to save his brother. The surreal scenes and characters, as well as psychological drama, will leave readers spellbound by Blake's battle for his soul.