Dorian Clay

Dorian Clay is a middle school student from Seattle, Washington. He started writing the Freddie and Friends book series when he was 10 years old. Between summer and winter breaks, plus a few Snow Days here and there, he finished Book 1 "Freddie Loses His Game" in 10 months.

Dorian start taking chess classes and playing in tournaments in first grade. His interest in art began at age three with art classes, and grew toward cartoons around age 8 when he bought a cartoon drawing book with a birthday gift-card. On some days during Summer while working on this book, Dorian worked for 12 hours next to his dad while he did his work.

When not doing homework or working on his books, Dorian likes to play with his little brother, take Kung-Fu classes, practice drawing and painting, read books, and play video games.