Donald J. Sobol

4 October 1924 – 11 July 2012

Donald J. Sobol was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from the Fieldston School in New York City in 1942 and joined the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. After the war, he got a degree from Oberlin College. He worked in New York for several years, working his way up from copy boy to reporter for the New York Sun, and then working for the New York Daily News, and worked there for two years. In the 1950s he moved to Miami to pursue writing full-time. He started writing the Two-Minute Mysteries series in 1959, and he started writing his popular Encyclopedia Brown mystery s

• Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
• Two-Minute Mysteries Collection
• Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again
• Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All
• Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man
• Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day
• More Two Minute Mysteries
• Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues
• Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case
• Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor
• Encyclopedia Brown takes the cake!
• Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles