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About Thomas Rockwell
- Thomas Rhodes Rockwell (born March 13, 1933) is an American author of children's books.
- Rockwell is the son of the American artist Norman Rockwell and his then-wife Mary Rockwell, an unpublished author.
- He grew up in Arlington, Vermont, a very rural small town.
- He attended a one-room schoolhouse; there were 23 students in his high school graduating class.
- His early mentors were Jim and Clara Edgarton, local farmers.
- He attended Bard College. He says he always wanted to write.
- He was the uncredited ghostwriter of his father's autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator.
- He got the idea of writing children's books when he started reading to his own son.
- His wife Gail illustrated several of his books.His best-known book is How to Eat Fried Worms (1973), about a boy who accepts a $50 bet that he can eat 15 worms in 15 days.
- Although it was rejected by 23 publishers before finally coming out in print, the book sold 3 million copies and received the Mark Twain Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Sequoyah Book Award.
- It was made into an animated TV episode of CBS Storybreak in 1985 and was filmed as a theatrical release in 2006. He now lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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