
This book has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is read in schools around the world. His most famous work The Wave, is a novelization of a social experiment that happened in Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California in 1969, and was made into a television movie in 1981 and a popular feature film in 2008.


His works include Give a Boy a Gun, Boot Camp, and Asphalt Tribe. 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. He is the father of two children, and an avid tennis player and surfer. Rue.Īfter studying literature in college, Strasser earned his living working as a journalist, also operated his own fortune cookie company, producing cookies under the "Dr.

Todd Strasser (born in New York City, New York) is an American author of more than 130 young-adult and middle grade novels and novelizations, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue and T.S.
