Drew daywalt author biography outlines

American author and filmmaker

Drew Daywalt (born January 5, 1970), is an American author and filmmaker.

He is best known for writing the best-selling children's picture bookThe Day the Crayons Quit, and its sequel The Day the Crayons Came Home, both illustrated by Oliver Jeffers.^[1][2] Daywalt is also known for writing scripts for American television and Hollywood studio films, and for creating a number of short horror films for release on the internet.

Early life

Drew Daywalt was born in Hudson, Ohio, on January 5, 1970, the youngest of six children,^[3] to Charlene (née Bable) and Charles Daywalt. "I grew up in a house in Hudson, Ohio, that was notoriously haunted.

It looked like 'The Munsters.'"^[4] The house had a storied reputation in the local area, having supposedly been a stagecoach stop, a brothel, and a respite on the Underground Railroad at various times.^[5]

Daywalt's older brothers, however un