Brent Hartinger

Author Brent Hartinger was born in the state of Washington (sometime in the year 1965), growing up in Tacoma. He got a bachelor’s degree from Gonzaga University (which is in Spokane, Washington). Hartinger studied for his masters in psychology at Western Washington University. The first novel that he had published (which is called “Geography Club”) was challenged by American schools, due to the fact that it stars a gay teen that is named Russel Middlebrook. One of the school’s was in Hartinger’s hometown, Tacoma.