Author Bio 
 Peter
Lerangis's books
have sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. Among his
most popular titles are the Antarctica adventure, Journey
to the Pole, and Escape from Disaster; a series
of humorous chapter books, Abracadabra; two young-adult
thrillers, The Yearbook, 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,
including The Sixth Sense, and Sleepy Hollow.
His historical novel, Smiler's Bones, based on
the true story of a Polar Eskimo boy orphaned in New York
City at the turn of the 20th century, will be published
in 2004. He was once a stage actor, which often allowed
him to travel in the past, a boon to his writing career.
He has run a marathon and gone rock-climbing during an
earthquake, and recommends doing neither on a regular
basis. He spent two summers on Nantucket, an island off
Cape Cod, but returned to the mainland and is growing
older peacefully. Mr. Lerangis has two sons, and resides
in New York City with his wife. |
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