Jul 19, 2012 (Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!) — We invite Norton Juster, the author of The Phantom Tollbooth, to answer three questions about The Phantom Menace.
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Norton Juster was born in Brooklyn in 1929. He is professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. (Courtesy of Norton Juster)
'Tollbooth' Author Norton Juster Plays Not My Job
Jul 19, 2012 (Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!) — We invite Norton Juster, the author of The Phantom Tollbooth, to answer three questions about The Phantom Menace.Fifty years ago, a young architect named Norton Juster decided to procrastinate by writing a children's book; his roommate, a young cartoonist named Jules Feiffer, did all the illustrations. The result was The Phantom Tollbooth, which has since become a beloved children's classic.
Since Juster knows enough about The Phantom Tollbooth already, we've invited him to answer three questions about The Phantom Menace.
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