When growing up in the Midwest, Allan Woodrow always wanted to be an author. But his teachers told him to write about what he knew, and he didn't know very much. It turns out he didn't know very much for quite a long time. Allan isn't sure he really knows anything more now than he did in third grade, but he decided to start writing anyway. Allan is the author of Class Dismissed and its companion book, Unschooled. Other books include The Pet War, The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless, and the Mumpley Middle School Mystery Books: The Contagious Colors of Mumpley Middle School and The Amazing Wilmer Dooley (both written as Fowler DeWitt).