Author peter lerangis biography

He is a Harvard graduate with a degree in biochemistry.
Peter Duncan Lerangis is an American author of children's and young adult fiction, best known for his Seven Wonders series and his work on the 39 Clues.
Peter Duncan Lerangis is an American author of children's and young adult fiction, best known for his Seven Wonders series and his work on the 39 Clues series.

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Bio

Peter Lerangis is the author of more than 175 books, which have sold nearly 7 million copies and been translated into 35 different languages. These include nine New York Times Bestsellers: all five books of The Seven Wonders series (The Colossus Rises, Lost in Babylon, The Tomb of Shadows, The Curse of the King, and The Legend of the Rift); all of his contributions in the The 39 Clues series (The Sword Thief; The Viper’s Nest; and Vespers Rising , which was co-authored with Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, and Jude Watson); and The Dead of Night, Book 3 in The 39 Clues: Cahills Vs. Vespers series. His novel Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, a collaboration with Harry Mazer, won the 2013 Schneider Award, presented by the American Library Association “for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for adolescent audiences,” and it was selected for the 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults list. The Sword Thief was Amazon.com’s #5 best-selling children’s book in 2009. In a five-city U.S. book tour in spring 2009, Peter vide

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Lerangis, Peter 1955–

(Alison Blair, a house pseudonym, M.E. Cooper, a house pseudonym, Franklin W. Dixon, a house pseudonym, Carolyn Keene, a house pseudonym, A.L. Singer, George Spelvin, Artie Sprengel, Dr. R.E. Volting)

Personal

Born August 19, 1955, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Nicholas P. (a telephone company employee) and Mary (a school secretary; maiden name, Condos) Lerangis; married Cristina L. deVaron (a musician and songwriter), September 4, 1983; children: Nicholas James, Joseph Alexander. Education: Harvard College, A.B., 1977. Hobbies and other interests: Photography, running, singing, piano.

Addresses

Home—7 W. 96th St., New York, NY 10025. Agent—George Nicholson, Sterling Lord Literistic, 65 Bleecker St., New York, NY 10012.

Career

Writer and performer. Actor and vocalist in New York, NY, 1978–89; freelance copyeditor, 1979–85; freelance writer, 1986–. Teacher of copyediting and proofreading at City University of New York Graduate Center, 1985–86. Family Literacy Writer-in-Residence, National Book Foundation, 2004. Presenter to schools and libraries; c

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Peter Lerangis

American author

Peter Duncan Lerangis^[2] (born 1955, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author of children's and young adult fiction, best known for his Seven Wonders series and his work on the 39 Clues series.

Life and career

Lerangis's work includes the Seven Wonders series, all five books of which made The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Books. He was also the author of The Viper's Nest and The Sword Thief, two titles in the New York Times-bestselling children's-book series The 39 Clues, along with the second entry in a four-novella collection, Vespers Rising. This book served as an introduction to a six-book 39 Clues sequel entitled Cahills Vs. Vespers,^[3] for which he wrote the third book, The Dead of the Night. His other books include the historical novel Smiler's Bones, the YA novel Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am (with Harry Mazer), the YA dark comedy-adventure novel wtf, the Drama Club series, the Spy X series, the Watchers series, the Abracadabra series, and the A