Todd Strasser

Who is Todd Strasser?

Todd Strasser is an American author of more than 140 young-adult and middle grade novels and many short stories and works of non-fiction, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue and T.S. Rue.

He was born in New York City, New York.

After studying literature in college, Strasser earned his living working as a journalist, also operated his own fortune cookie company, producing cookies under the "Dr. Wing Tip Shoo" brand name. He is the father of two children, and an avid tennis player, skier, and surfer.

Strasser has written many award-winning novels for young adults and teens, picking controversial themes like Nazism, bullying at schools, homelessness, school shootings, and sexuality. His works include many award-winning novels such as Give a Boy a Gun, Boot Camp, Asphalt Tribe and If I Grow Up. His most famous work is The Wave, a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave, a fictionalized account of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in a Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California. This book has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is read in schools around the world.