Bruce Brooks
(b. 1950)

Bruce Brooks said, "I started becoming a writer when I started reading. I started making up things in words, alternative stories that went along with the ones I was reading. Upon opening my first book in elementary school, I thought, 'Somebody wrote this. I bet I could do it, too'…[later] I started writing my own stuff from scratch. This was much easier than dreaming up new twists for Huck or Pip or Batman."

After 20 years of practice, Brooks published his first novel, The Moves Make the Man, a story about two teenage boys from different backgrounds who share a love for basketball. He has since published other books of fiction and nonfiction. Brooks says, "I don't feel I write books about kids, exactly; I feel I write books about families and friends—ultimately (this sounds corny) about love and the way it works between people."

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