[1] Sherman's career began after graduating Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School, when he got a job as a copyeditor at a local magazine.

[2] The Curiosity of School: Education and the Dark Side of Enlightenment was published by Penguin Random House in 2012, and debuted on the national bestseller list.

In 2014, he began investigating the disappearance of Joan Lawrence, an elderly woman from Huntsville, Ontario, who went missing under suspicious circumstances.

[5] An adapted version of the story was released on July 9 as the fourth season of Uncover, a CBC podcast.

Sherman wrote and hosted the six-part series, entitled "The Cat Lady Case,"[6] and he and a friend scored the soundtrack.