Todd Strasser
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Strasser in Langenau, Germany,
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May 5, 1950 New York City, New York, United States |
| Pen name | Morton Rhue; T. S. Rue |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1979–present (as writer) |
| Genre | Children's and young adult fiction, novelizations, romans |
| Subject | Literature |
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Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950) is an American writer 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.
Todd Strasser was born in New York City.
After studying literature in college, Strasser earned his living as a journalist and 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 novels for young adults and teens, picking controversial themes like Nazism, bullying at schools, homelessness, school shootings, and sexuality. They include Give a Boy a Gun, Boot Camp, Asphalt Tribe and If I Grow Up. His most famous work is The Wave, written under the name Morton Rhue, which is a novelization of the teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave. These are fictionalized accounts of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones in a Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California. The Rhue novel has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is read in schools around the world.
Fallout is part memoir and part speculative fiction featuring nuclear war that results from the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. A review in The New York Times called it "Exciting, harrowing ... Superb entertainment ... It thrums along with finely wrought atmosphere and gripping suspense."School Library Journal called it "A Must-Read Middle School Book" and it received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus.
The Beast of Cretacea is Strasser's first science fiction adventure novel. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Moby Dick it foretells a time when, due to pollution and global warming, the Earth can no longer produce enough food to feed its population. As a result, space missions regularly depart for other planets to find additional sources of nutrition. The book's hero, young Ishmael, is on one such mission, to hunt and capture large alien beasts, which can be processed and sent back to Earth. The novel was recently awarded the Green Earth Book Award, young adult category.
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