Michael Gerber

Michael Gerber

Michael Gerber is best known as the author of the Barry Trotter series, Sunday Times best-selling parodies of the Harry Potter books. Before becoming a novelist, Gerber contributed humor to The Yale Record, The New Yorker,The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, NPR and Saturday Night Live, among many other venues. He is an alumnus of Yale and Oak Park River Forest High School. While an undergraduate, Gerber restarted The Yale Record, America's oldest humor magazine. Gerber served as President of The Record's alumni organization from 1994 to 2014, developing an innovative editorial and publishing model for the magazine. As a result, he is frequently contacted by student editors from all around the world, and has most recently worked with students at DePaul University, Ohio State University, Cambridge University, and UCLA. He is the brother of quantum physicist and professor Keith Schwab.

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