When he’s not writing, he likes to read and watch movies, spend time with his grown children, play tennis, guitar, and surf. Todd has also written for The New Yorker and Esquire magazines, and The New York Times. His novel How I Created My Perfect Prom Date became the movie, Drive Me Crazy. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages, and several have been adapted for TV and film, including The Wave, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and was also the basis for a Netflix series. His other middle-grade series include Wordsworth the Talking Basset Hound, Don’t Get Caught, The Tardy Boys, Against the Odds, Heavenly Litebody, and Camp Run-A-Muck. Todd’s Help! I’m Trapped In … middle-grade series has sold more than seven million copies world-wide. In addition to his books for young people, Strasser also contributes articles to The New Yorker and The New York Times.Todd is the author of close to 150 published books, including many award-winning YA and middle-grade novels, such as The Wave, Give a Boy a Gun, Price of Duty, Boot Camp, and Fallout, which the New York Times called, “Superb entertainment. However, the Morton Rhue pen name is still used abroad for The Wave and some of his other novels.Īlthough much of Strasser's recent work, such as the Help, I'm Trapped In series, is humorous and targeted at younger readers, his books for teens often address mature themes including bullying and school shootings. When The Wave became successful in the U.S., Strasser dropped the pseudonym and all of his subsequent books have been published in the U.S. His publisher, Dell, thought that it would hurt sales to have two titles by the same author published close together (his second novel, Friends till the End, had also been published that year). When The Wave was published in 1981, Strasser was asked to invent a pseudonym. Until 1990, he balanced writing with managing the fortune-cookie company he had founded with money from the sale of his first book.
He published his first novel, Angel Dust Blues, in 1978. to study literature and writing at Beloit College.
Todd lives in a suburb of New York and speaks. After living on a commune and as a street musician in Europe, Strasser returned to the U.S. Todd Strasser has written many critically acclaimed novels for adults, teenagers, and children, including the award-winning Can’t Get There from Here, Give a Boy a Gun, Boot Camp, If I Grow Up, Famous, and How I Created My Perfect Prom Date, which became the Fox feature film Drive Me Crazy. Todd Strasser is an American novelist who writes primarily for the young reader market.īorn in New York City, Strasser struggled with English classes in school and dropped out of New York University.
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