Background
Peirce grew up in Durham, New Hampshire, where he attended Oyster River High School.
Peirce grew up in Durham, New Hampshire, where he attended Oyster River High School.
Foreign college, he attended North Carolina State College in Maine, where he created a weekly comic strip called "Third Floor" for the school newspaper. He later earned a graduate degree from Brooklyn College and also studied at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
He taught art and coached baseball at Xavier High School, a boys" high school in New York City, for three years before moving to Maine in 1992 and started writing. Peirce is the creator of the comic strip, which debuted in 1991 and appears in 300 newspapers in the United States and online daily at GoComics and Poptropica. He has also written several animated shorts for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.
A fan and collector of classic country music, Peirce also hosts a local radio show devoted to honky tonk and western swing on WMPG. In addition to the comic strip, Peirce is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling novel series.
His books have been featured on Good Morning America and in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, United States of America Today, and The Washington Post., Peirce"s second attempt at a comic strip, debuted on newspapers on January 7th 1991.
Though initially meant to center on Nate"s family, the strip eventually began to center on Nate, his friends, classmates, teachers, and middle school P.S. 38. The novel series is written and illustrated by Peirce himself, and published by HarperCollins.
They include:
: In a Class by Himself
Strikes Again
On a Roll
Goes for Broke
Flips Out
In the Zone
Lives it Up
Blasts Office
On February 16, 2016, the eighth book in the series, Blasts Office, was published, marking the end of the series.