Biography Of Peter Lerangis

Biography

Peter Lerangis is the author of more than 160 books, which have sold more than 4.5 million copies and been translated into 28 different languages, including two books in the New YorkTimes–bestselling series The 39 Clues (Book 3:The Sword Thief and 7: The Viper’s Nest) and co-authorship (along with Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, and Jude Watson) of Book 11: Vespers Rising.  For thenew The 39 Clues: Cahills Vs. Vespers series, he has contributed Book 3: The Dead of Night.  The Sword Thief was Amazon.com’s #5 best-selling children’s book in 2009. In a five-city U.S. book tour inspring 2009, Peter videoblogged his own search for one of the Clues. He is also author of the hilarious, edgy YA novel wtf, and the Drama Club series, about a group of high school theater kids in a townwhere theater is big-budget and life-changing. His novelSmiler’s Bones, based on the true story of a Polar Eskimo boy orphaned in New York City at the turn of the 20th century, was selected as a N.Y.Public Library Best Books for Teens 2006, a Bank Street Best Books of 2006, and a Junior Library Guild pick.  His novel Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, a collaboration with Harry Mazer, will bepublished in 2012, along with a three-book series, Perfect. Peter was one of three authors, along with R. L. Stine and Marc Brown, invited by the White House to represent the U. S. in the firstRussianBook Festival in 2003. Among his most popular titles are the Spy Xand Watchers series, the two-book Antarctica adventure, a series of humorous chapter books (Abracadabra), two young-adult thrillers (TheYearbook and Driver’s Dead), four middle-grade novels (Spring Fever, Spring Break, It Came from the Cafeteria, and Attack of the Killer Potatoes, and many movie novelizations (The Sixth Sense, SleepyHollow). He is a Harvard graduate with a degree in biochemistry. After college he became a Broadway musical theater actor. He has run a marathon and gone rock-climbing during an earthquake, but not...