Gile is the author of three books which have been made and topped bestseller lists across North America. A magna cum laude graduate of Northern Illinois University, he has been writing for television, radio, and print media for more than 30 years. He is a frequent in American and Canadian periodicals. His reading and writing programs, presented in person to more than than 400,000 students and teachers and to hundreds of thousands more through classroom audio and video cassettes, have won educators' acclaim throughout the United States and abroad.