WHAAAAAAT.
I haven't read any of his books in a while, but I read them a ton as a kid. I even got to meet him, and totally got owned by him once.
I got to briefly talk to him at a book signing near where I live, and i told him I had been working on my own story for several years, and ended up re-writing it several times. He asked if I had ever considered taking Violin lessons.
R.I.P. dude.