Todd Strasser [SEP] occupation
Todd Strasser
Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950) is an American writer of more than 130 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.
Biography.
Strasser was born in New York City. He studied literature and creative writing at Benoit College. He earned his living as a reporter for the Middletown Times Herald-Record newspaper for some years as well as for Compton Advertising in New York City
The Wave (novel)
The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name). It is 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 Ellwood P. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California. The novel by Strasser won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/