Mordecai Richler

"Yikes," said a terrified Jacob Two-Two. "He's heading our way. What should I say? What should I say?"

Mr. I.M. Greedyguts stopped immediately before their table. "I beg your pardon," he said to Jacob Two-Two, "but would you happen to be related to the World's Best Midget Photographer?”

Jacob Two-Two has delighted and entertained children around the world. Many of us have grown up reading Jacob’s adventures and mishaps, and still more have been delighted by the television show and movies that have spawned from the stories. Mordecai Richler, author of Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Jacob Two Two and the Dinosaur, and Jacob Two Two’s First Spy Case, was born on St. Urbain Street in Montreal on January 27, 1931 to a scrapyard dealer and a rabbi’s daughter. He moved to Europe when he was 19, after dropping out of Concordia University, then called Sir George Willams University. He moved back to Montreal in 1972, after spending nearly twenty years abroad. By the time he came back to Canada, he had published two essays and eight novels, including The Apprenticeship