Sports were, and still are, one of the great pleasures of my life. It's not that I'm trying to make a statement about athletics, but it is what I know. Also, the young adult novel format, at about 200 pages, lends itself to a time span of about three months. And that is about the length of a sports season in high school. What I'm trying to do with my books is to marry the sports side with other issues and transcend genre."
A Writing Family
Klass was born in Vermont and grew up in Leonia, New Jersey, the son of Morton Klass, an anthropology professor, who also edited science fiction journals, and Sheila Solomon Klass, a well-known writer for young adults. "I came from a family of readers and writers," Klass told AAYA. "I can't imagine a family where more emphasis and love was given to literature. My family reads ferociously." Both Klass's younger and older sisters, Judy and Perri, are novelists, and an uncle writes science fiction novels. "Growing up in this family, it was almost impossible not to become a writer," Klass noted.
A self-confessed reluctant reader, Klass was, as he described himself, "the least intellectual in the family," and the only one to focus on sports in school.
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