David Klass
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| Born | Vermont, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
| Genre | Screenwriting, thrillers, young adult fiction |
David Klass is an American screenwriter and novelist. He has written more than 40 screenplays for Hollywood studios and published 14 young adult novels. His screenplays are primarily character-based thrillers for adults, while his novels often tell the stories of teenagers in crisis.
Klass was born in Vermont and raised in Leonia, New Jersey, the son of Sheila and Solomon Klass, English professor and author, and Dr. Morton Klass, professor of anthropology at Barnard College and the brother of Dr. Perri Klass, a pediatrician, author, educator, and a contributing columnist for the New York Times. His uncle was science fiction author Philip Klass, who wrote under the name William Tenn.
Klass attended Leonia High School. He received his BA in History from Yale University in 1982 and later graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1989). Klass lives in New York City with his wife, Giselle Benatar, and their two children.
Klass’s writing career began with the novel The Atami Dragons, inspired by his experiences as an English teacher in Japan. His 1994 book California Blue gathered very positive reviews for its quiet yet compelling treatment of environmental issues. In 2001 Klass published You don’t know me, which uses an edgy first-person narrative to tell the story of a teenage boy’s life with an abusive stepfather-to-be. The book has been published in 18 languages, was named an ALA Best Book For Young Adults, and continues to be popular with young adult audiences in the United States and internationally.
Firestorm is the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, a series of science fiction thrillers with an ecological theme. Firestorm was the first book ever endorsed by Greenpeace and was praised by critics for its combination of entertainment value and environmental message, garnering an American Library Association (ALA) Best Book citation, a starred review from Publisher's Weekly, and a favorable review by the New York Times Book Review. The story focuses on Jack Danielson, a teenager sent back from the future to save the world’s oceans.
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