George Guthridge has been called "the Jaime [Stand and Deliver] Escalante of Alaska" and "The Michael Jordan of the teaching of writing." He has been nationally honored four times as an educator for his work with Alaska Native youth. Using his methods, his rural-Alaska students have graduated from such places as MIT, Harvard, Dartmouth, West Point, Yale Law School, the University of Washington Medical School, Syracuse, and Stanford, to name just a few.

A former technical writer and science magazine editor-in-chief, he has published five novels and more than seventy short stories and novelettes, and three times has been a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards for science fiction and fantasy.

In 1997 he was co-winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the "Oscar" of horror writing, for Children of the Dusk. A historical novel that critics hailed as "epic" and
"a masterpiece" and compared to Lord of the Flies and to Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it is based on Hitler's (real) attempt to send Europe's Jews to Madagascar.

George is now Professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Bristol Bay, in Dillingham, Alaska, where he is currently creating a DVD and workbook series about his revolutionary approaches to teaching writing and grammar. The royalties he receives from this book will go toward building a school in the earthquake-ravaged area overseas. It will be dedicated to the Kids from Nowhere.