Allan zullo biography

Born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, Allan dreamed of becoming a major league baseball player.
Allan Zullo is an American non-fiction writer.
Allan Zullo is the versatile, best-selling author or coauthor of more than 120 nonfiction books on a broad range of subjects for general audiences and.

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Allan Zullo became a writer because, well, he couldn’t think of anything else to do.

Born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, Allan dreamed of becoming a major league baseball player. In his youth, he was a slick fielder, but he couldn’t hit the curveball, fastball or any other pitch for that matter. In fact, his longest hit in organized baseball was a pop fly double that the first baseman lost in the sun. So he turned in his cleats and jersey and decided that if he couldn’t play the game he loved, he would write about it and all the other sports he enjoyed but couldn’t play well. Pounding away on an old Royal standard typewriter, Allan was the sports editor of his high school newspaper and freelanced for the sports department of Rockford’s two daily papers.

In 1969, Allan graduated with a journalism degree from Northern Illinois University where he worked on the school’s daily paper, The Northern Star, first as a sportswriter, then news editor, managing editor and finally editor-in-chief. Hooked on journalism, he was a reporter for the Rock

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Allan Zullo is the versatile, best-selling author or coauthor of more than 120 nonfiction books on a broad range of subjects for general audiences and younger readers. Perhaps best known for his offbeat books on everything from Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit to The Baseball Hall of Shame, Allan has also tackled serious topics such as war, heroism, crime and the Holocaust. Allan also pens three popular series for Scholastic for students in middle school: Ten True Tales, gripping stories of extraordinary persons of all ages who have met the challenges of dangerous situations; Bad Pets, hilarious, true accounts of antics in the animal world; and Haunted Kids, eerie tales inspired by real-life investigations of the supernatural. Since 1989, he has created boxed daily page calendars on a wide variety of subjects for Andrews McMeel, including the popular Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit. He lives in Fairview, North Carolina.