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.
Sometimes when I visit a school a kid will ask me if I ever regret becoming a writer or if there is another career I wish I'd tried. One thing about being a writer is that you can have as many careers as you want. In the past year, for instance, I have dived for sunken treasure, gone into the Federal Witness Protection program, and become a lawyer and a professional model. Of course, I didn't really do all those things; instead I researched and wrote about them. But when I wrote, it felt as if I'd actually done them. Tomorrow I might decide to write about hunting in Alaska, or being a computer hacker, or an actor. That, to me, is the greatest part of being a writer.
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Fact
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 382-388. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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A successful freelance writer for young adults, Strasser has worked as a reporter with the Times Herald Record of Middletown, New York, an advertising copywriter, an Esquire magazine researcher, a fortune cookie company entrepreneur, and author of novelizations for movies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and Pink Cadillac (1989). He was married in 1981 and has two children.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Drive Me Crazy
1999
novel "How I Created My Perfect Prom Date"
Guiding Light
1990
TV Series writer - 1 episode
ABC Afterschool Specials
TV Series writer - 1 episode, 1990 book "A Very Touchy Subject" - 1 episode, 1986