Nathan Hale (author)

Nathan grew up in Sundance, Utah, the child of ski instructors. His family didn't have any entertainment except for some fantasy stories, which his father would read out loud to him and his siblings.^{[citation needed]}

Nathan went to Cornish College in Seattle. He first worked at a natural history museum, painting displays.

In 2011, Nathan was asked to illustrate Rapunzel's Revenge, and then asked to illustrate Calamity Jack. He was then inspired to create his own graphic novel series. The next year, he wrote and illustrated One Dead Spy, which was about the life of Nathan Hale, a soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The next books explained the American Revolutionary War, the Alamo, exploration of the Grand Canyon, the Underground Railroad, World War I, World War II, and the Haitian Revolution in hilarious ways.

He now lives in Utah and is an avid collector of Lego sets.^[3]

Many of Hale's books from the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series have landed on The New York Times Best Seller list.^[1] The Underground Abductor and Alamo All Stars held the number one position.^[1]

Eight of the books Hale has authored, as well as two books he has solely illustrated, are Junior Library Guild selections: Rapunzel’s Revenge (2008),^[4] Calamity Jack (2010),^[5] Alamo All-Stars (2016),^[6] One Trick Pony (2017),^[7] Raid of No Return (2017),^[8] Lafayette! (2018),^[9] Major Impossible (2020),^[10] Blades of Freedom (2021),^[11] Cold War Correspondent (2022),^[12] and Above the Trenches (2023)^[13]

In 2011, Bank Street College of Education marked Calamity Jack as being of "outstanding merit" in its list of the best books of the year.^[14]

In 2017, One Trick Pony was named one of the best books of the year by VOYA,^[7] Chicago Public Library,^[15] and the New York Public Library.^[16]