Ryan Everett Felton

In the third grade, Ryan Everett Felton received an inkjet-printer certificate from NASA for writing an outstanding mnemonic device to help students memorize the moons of Jupiter. To this day he remembers that "my ape ate ten icky ewwie gooey corn cobs"—but cannot name a single Jupiterian moon.

Now a novelist and playwright, Felton lives in Indianapolis. He dabbles in puppetry and illustration for mysterious reasons.