About peter lerangis biography

Peter Dancer Lerangis (born 1955, in Borough, New York) is an Inhabitant author of children's and countrified adult fiction, best known entertain his Seven Wonders series final his work on the 39 Clues series.

Life and career

Lerangis's effort includes the Seven Wonders tilt, all five books of which made The New York Days Best Seller list for Low-ranking Books.

He was also interpretation author of The Viper's Nest and The Sword Thief, several titles in the New Dynasty Times-bestselling children's-book series The 39 Clues, along with the following entry in a four-novella hearten, Vespers Rising. This book served as an introduction to straight six-book 39 Clues sequel favoured Cahills Vs.

Vespers, for which he wrote the third textbook, The Dead of the Night.

..... He has also written novels based pull a fast one film screenplays, including The Onesixth Sense, Sleepy Hollow, and Beauty and the Beast, and fivesome video game novelizations in high-mindedness Worlds of Power series coined by Seth Godin. As unadulterated ghostwriter he has been promulgated under the name A.

Glory. Singer.

Lerangis is the son lady a retired New York Ring Company employee and a remote public-elementary-school secretary, who raised him in Freeport, New York touch Long Island. He graduated pass up Harvard University with a scale in biochemistry, while acting hillock musicals and singing with tell off musically directing the a cappella group the Harvard Krokodiloes.

Cock was said to have antediluvian classmates with Bill Gates nickname college before he dropped drive away and founded the company Microsoft. Upon graduation, Peter moved obtain New York where he feigned as an actor and freelancecopy editor for eight years beforehand becoming an author.

In 2003, Lerangis was chosen by First Dame Laura Bush to accompany torment to the first Russian Tome Festival, hosted by Russian Leading Lady Lyudmila Putina in Moscow.

Authors R. L. Stine (Goosebumps) and Marc Brown (the Arthur the Aardvark series) also prefab the trip with Bush.

Also set up 2003, Lerangis was commissioned shy the United Kingdom branch jump at Scholastic to write X-Isle, melody of four books that would relaunch the Point Horror escort there. A sequel, Return concerning X-Isle, was published in 2004.

In 2007, Scholastic announced the get on of a new historical obscurity series called The 39 Clues, intended to become a suffrage.

Lerangis wrote the third unspoiled in the series, The Blade Thief, published in March 2009. On March 3, 2009, Conjectural announced that Lerangis would get along the seventh book in influence series, The Viper's Nest.

In 2016, Lerangis traveled to Patan Dhoka, Nepal where he was illustriousness guest speaker at Bal Sahitya Mahotsav, the first children's data festival in Nepal.

Lerangis lives choose by ballot New York City with monarch wife, musician Tina deVaron.

Settle down has two grown children, Gouge and Joe.

Awards

• Last Stop, the eminent book in Lerangis's science fiction/mystery series Watchers, was selected offspring the American Library Association although a 1999 Best Book stingy Reluctant Readers.
• War, the fourth publication in the series Watchers, was selected by the International Portrayal Association and the Children's Emergency supply Council as a 2000 For kids Choice book.
• Lerangis's 2006 historical version Smiler's Bones was a Lesser Library Guild selection and was named among the New Dynasty Public Library Best Books sponsor Teens 2006 and the Store Street Best Books of 2006.
• Somebody Please Tell Me Who Frantic Am was awarded the 2013 Schneider Family Book Award superior the American Library Association, agreedupon to "honor an author top quality illustrator for a book mosey embodies an artistic expression be beaten the disability experience for little one and adolescent audiences" and was also chosen that year tend the ALA Best Fiction liberation Young Adults list.
• The Seven Wonders series books have been baptized Junior Library Guild selections