Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
One summer in his teens, a bored Hautman and his friends made up a mock-religion worshipping the water tower of St. Louis Park, Minnesota. (Source)
Pete Hautman is fascinated by mushrooms. (Source)
PH spent seven years in college, but left without completing a degree. (Source)
Hautman has written a bunch of children's nonfiction books under the name Peter Murray (his middle name). He even wrote one about snails, which explains how Shin knows so much about gastropods. (Source)
Hautman lives with mystery writer Mary Logue. (Source)