How did a working-class young man from Washington, DC, turn the music world on its head and become the "Master Of Jazz"? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library!
M. D. Payne was born in 1978 in New Hampshire to an Air Force
Family and grew up in 11 different homes in Maine, California,
Idaho, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Germany. As a child, he was a
ravenous reader. While in elementary school, his favorite past-time
was creating cut-and-paste scrapbooks of presidential facts that
remain in his mother's possession today. M. D. has been a fan of
Halloween and horror into adulthood, so he jumped at the chance to
write marketing and creative copy for the famed GOOSEBUMPS series
in 2007, and was soon pulled into the world of kidlit. He wrote his
first books, the gross-out horror series MONSTER JUICE, from
2012-2014, and then became involved in the NY Times bestselling WHO
WAS series, tackling spooky titles like Who Is R. L. Stine and What
is the Story of Scooby Doo?
Before M. D. was a writer, he was a Jazz DJ, wrote scripts for Jazz
at Lincoln Center Radio, and was associate producer on Essentially
Ellington recordings and public radio programs such as Honky Tonks,
Hymns, and the Blues and W.C. Handy's Blues. He took that decade of
experience and poured it into the WHO WAS book on Jazz legend Duke
Ellington. Who Was Duke Ellington? will be available December 1,
2020.
A fan of kids, reading, and especially kids who read, M. D. gives
presentations on reading and writing to children and parents alike
at numerous schools around the country, and around the world via
Skype. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.
Ask a Question About this Product More... |