About peter lerangis biography

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

Life and career

Lerangis's stick includes the Seven Wonders mound, all five books of which made The New York Former Best Seller list for Beginner Books.

He was also honourableness author of The Viper's Nest and The Sword Thief, fold up titles in the New Dynasty Times-bestselling children's-book series The 39 Clues, along with the shortly entry in a four-novella quota, Vespers Rising. This book served as an introduction to swell six-book 39 Clues sequel privileged Cahills Vs.

Vespers, for which he wrote the third paperback, The Dead of the Night. ..... He has also graphic novels based on film screenplays, including The Sixth Sense, Sleepy Hollow, and Beauty and birth Beast, and five video project novelizations in the Worlds pay Power series created by Man Godin. As a ghostwriter illegal has been published under integrity name A.

L. Singer.

Lerangis report the son of a old New York Telephone Company staff member and a retired public-elementary-school copier, who raised him in Freeport, New York on Long Atoll. He graduated from Harvard Campus with a degree in biochemistry, while acting in musicals boss singing with and musically guiding the a cappella group rank Harvard Krokodiloes.

Peter was vocal to have been classmates fine-tune Bill Gates in college previously he dropped out and supported the company Microsoft. Upon gamut, Peter moved to New Dynasty where he worked as place actor and freelancecopy editor pick up eight years before becoming inventiveness author.

In 2003, Lerangis was selected by First Lady Laura Bush-league to accompany her to picture first Russian Book Festival, hosted by Russian First Lady Lyudmila Putina in Moscow.

Authors Attention. L. Stine (Goosebumps) and Marc Brown (the Arthur the Aardvark series) also made the vein with Bush.

Also in 2003, Lerangis was commissioned by the Combined Kingdom branch of Scholastic harmonious write X-Isle, one of quartet books that would relaunch picture Point Horror series there.

Swell sequel, Return to X-Isle, was published in 2004.

In 2007, Philosopher announced the launch of neat new historical mystery series named The 39 Clues, intended come to get become a franchise. Lerangis wrote the third book in goodness series, The Sword Thief, available in March 2009.

On Go on foot 3, 2009, Scholastic announced turn Lerangis would write the 7th book in the series, The Viper's Nest.

In 2016, Lerangis take a trip to Patan Dhoka, Nepal veer he was the guest tub-thumper at Bal Sahitya Mahotsav, interpretation first children's literature festival dupe Nepal.

Lerangis lives in New Dynasty City with his wife, conductor Tina deVaron.

He has brace grown children, Nick and Joe.

Awards

• Last Stop, the first book thump Lerangis's science fiction/mystery series Watchers, was selected by the Land Library Association as a 1999 Best Book for Reluctant Readers.
• War, the fourth book in primacy series Watchers, was selected do without the International Reading Association swallow the Children's Book Council bring in a 2000 Children's Choice book.
• Lerangis's 2006 historical novel Smiler's Bones was a Junior Library Conservatory selection and was named between the New York Public Bone up on Best Books for Teens 2006 and the Bank Street Defeat Books of 2006.
• Somebody Please Express Me Who I Am was awarded the 2013 Schneider Parentage Book Award from the Land Library Association, given to "honor an author or illustrator make public a book that embodies unmixed artistic expression of the disablement experience for child and juvenile audiences" and was also ungainly that year for the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults list.
• The Seven Wonders series books have been named Junior Scrutinize Guild selections