Main Line teacher/author Jim Zervanos charms with ‘American Gyro’

Ask Bala Cynwyd’s Jim Zervanos if his latest book – a sweet, funny, coming-of-age novel about a Greek American growing up outside Philly – is autobiographical and you receive a resounding, er, not really: “The literal story is entirely made up but it’s more personal to me than anything I’ve written.”

Indeed, Zervanos calls Gyro’s protagonist, Johnny Demos, his “surrogate.”