Mark Gold­blatt is a lot like Julian Twer­s­ki, only not as inter­est­ing. He’s a wide­ly pub­lished colum­nist, a nov­el­ist, and a pro­fes­sor at the Fash­ion Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy. Twerp was his first book for younger read­ers. He lives in New York City.