His father, William, sold insurance his mother, Doris (Kruse) Clements, was a homemaker.Īn avid reader from a young age, Mr. Clements’s agent, Amy Berkower, said it might be completed by a collaborator.Īndrew Elborn Clements was born on May 29, 1949, in Camden, N.J., and grew up in nearby Oaklyn and Cherry Hill before moving with his family to Springfield, Ill., when he was in the sixth grade. Clements had written a first draft of “The Frindle Files,” a sequel to “Frindle,” in which Nicholas becomes a teacher. Clements’s “No Talking” (2007) in The New York Times Book Review.īefore his death, Mr. “His kids are cruel, kind, bullying, angry, joyful, delightful, tall, short, impulsive, thoughtful smart, funny,” Lisa Von Drasek, a children’s librarian, wrote of Mr.
Clements’s books have been praised for their portrayal of the dynamics between students and teachers, the intricacies of classroom and schoolyard culture, and the breadth of adults’ as well as children’s emotions.
“Frindle” was followed by many more books for middle-grade students, including “The Landry News” (1998), about a fifth grader who publishes her own newspaper and writes a searing editorial about her teacher, and “The Losers Club” (2017), about a boy who reads so obsessively - to the exclusion of paying attention in class - that he starts an after-school book club to preserve his quiet reading time he calls it the Losers Club to minimize participation. “The chess-like sparring between the gifted Nicholas and his crafty teacher is enthralling.” “By turns amusing and adroit, this first novel is utterly satisfying,” Kirkus Reviews wrote.
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