Todd Strasser
Author of The Wave
About the Author
Todd Strasser was born in New York City. While still a child, Strasser and his parents moved to Roslyn Heights, New York on Long Island. Strasser attended the I.U. Willets Elementary school and then the Wheatley School for junior high and high school. Strasser went to college at New York University show more for a few years, before dropping out. He lived on a commune, and then in Europe, where he was a street musician. While he was in Europe, Strasser wrote songs and poems in letters to his friends. He decided to try writing. Upon his return to the United States, Strasser enrolled at Beloit College where he studied literature and writing. After graduating, Strasser worked at the Middletown Times Herald-Record newspaper in Middletown, New York, and later at Compton Advertising in New York City. In 1978, he sold his first novel, Angel Dust Blues. Strasser used the money to start the Dr. Wing Tip Shoo fortune cookie company. For the next 12 years, Todd sold more fortune cookies than books. n 1990, Strasser moved to Westchester County, N.Y., where during the next few years, he wrote various movie novelizations, including Home Alone, Free Willy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Jumanji. In 1993 he wrote Help! I'm Trapped in My Teacher's Body and since then has written 16 more Help! I'm Trapped... books, as well as several other series. All together, he has published more than 100 books. Strasser is alos a speaker at schools and conferences when he is not busy writing Strasser has won numerous awards in the course of his career, including the 1995 New York State Library Association Award for Outstanding Children's Literature for the Help! I'm Trapped Series, several State Literature Awards, the 1996 International Reading Association Children's Choice as well as the 1996 Children's Book Council Children's Choice for Give a Boy a Gun and the 1996 American Library Association Best Book for Teens. He won the 1997 American Library Association Notable Book for Abe Lincoln for Class President, the 1988 American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, and was a 1988 Edgar Allan Poe nominee from the Mystery Writers of America. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Todd Strasser also writes under the pen name Morton Rhue
Series
Works by Todd Strasser
Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of School | Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of Summer Camp (2005) 20 copies
Tardy Boys Set (Is That a Sick Cat in Your Backpack? Is That a Dead Dog in Your Locker?) (2007) 3 copies
Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of School | Help! I'm Trapped in Obedience School (2004) 3 copies
Die Welle (The Wave): Kommentare, Diskussionsaspekte und Anregungen für produktionsorientiertes Lesen in der… (1996) 1 copy
The Villains Collection 1 copy
La bomba 1 copy
Amazing Panda Adventure 1 copy
Libertem Willy 1 copy
Associated Works
13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen (2003) — Contributor — 216 copies
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- Legal name
- Strasser, Todd
- Other names
- Rhue, Morton
Rhue, T. S. - Birthdate
- 1950-05-05
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Westchester, New York, USA
Montauk, New York, USA - Education
- Beloit College (BA|1974)
New York University - Occupations
- journalist
copy writer
novelist - Disambiguation notice
- Todd Strasser also writes under the pen name Morton Rhue
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Statistics
- Works
- 159
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 14,742
- Popularity
- #1,562
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 352
- ISBNs
- 702
- Languages
- 13
- Favorited
- 8
- Touchstones
- 112