Jim Gullo

Oregon author Jim Gullo's tenth book, THE COMEDY KEEPER, is a historical comedy for serious class clowns! In this book intended for a 10-15 year old reader (and their parents), 7th-grader Josh Markowitz gets sent back in time to convince some very funny brothers named Marx that their futures lie in being comedians. Groucho, Chico and Harpo need some help from the future to begin their famous careers, and The Comedy Keeper is just the kid to help.

Gullo has been writing funny, engaging stories for over thirty years, with a career that has included travel writing, novels, journalism and the memoir about teaching baseball to his son, TRADING MANNY: HOW A FATHER AND SON LEARNED TO LOVE BASEBALL AGAIN.

Previous books include FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH,” a novel about overcoming loss; guidebooks and non-fiction books for middle-school readers.

Gullo’s comic voice and insightful reporting have been displayed as the “How-to Guru” columnist for Premiere magazine, the “Video Vagabond” reviewer for the Chicago Tribune for several years, and as a columnist for Diversion and Wingspan magazines.

As a travel writer and journalist, Gullo searched northern Thailand for noodles for Saveur; chronicled the feats of Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii’s greatest athlete, for Sports Illustrated; played the golf courses of Scotland as a P.G. Wodehouse character for Islands; asked his butler to bring pizzas and Yoohoos to his St. Regis hotel suite for Virtuoso Travel Life; and written about Microsoft millionaires, Mexican resorts and scuba-diving in Indiana sloughs for Town & Country, Bon Appetit and Aqua, respectively.

Gullo grew up in Penn Yan, New York on Keuka Lake, where his father, Dr. Joseph F. Gullo, was a professor at Keuka College. Gullo studied journalism and creative writing at the University of Arizona and has taken writing workshops at the Field’s End program on Bainbridge Island, Washington, where he lived for several years.

He now resides in McMinnville, Oregon, in the heart of Oregon's wine region with wife Kris and sons Joe and Henry; his son Michael is a professional jazz singer and producer in New York City. When not writing or sampling Oregon wines, Gullo is an avid baker and author of the PastryRanch.com baking blog.

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