Jerry Spinelli  was born February 1, 1941 in Norristown, Pennsylvania

• Factors that influenced his reading:
reading comics, sports section of the newspaper, and cereal boxes

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• Influences on his writing:

      his kids provided incidences for his stories
• Married  Eileen Mesi, who is a writer and had 6 children
• Worked in the Chilton Company as a magazine publisher, and in the U.S. Naval Reserve

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