- Todd Strasser was born on May 5, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer, known for ABC Afterschool Specials (1972), Drive Me Crazy (1999) and Give a Boy a Gun.
- SpousePamela Older(July 2, 1981 - ?) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- A successful freelance writer for young adults, Strasser has worked as a reporter with the Times Herald Record of Middletown, New York, an advertising copywriter, an Esquire magazine researcher, a fortune cookie company entrepreneur, and author of novelizations for movies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and Pink Cadillac (1989). He was married in 1981 and has two children.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 382-388. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Sometimes when I visit a school a kid will ask me if I ever regret becoming a writer or if there is another career I wish I'd tried. One thing about being a writer is that you can have as many careers as you want. In the past year, for instance, I have dived for sunken treasure, gone into the Federal Witness Protection program, and become a lawyer and a professional model. Of course, I didn't really do all those things; instead I researched and wrote about them. But when I wrote, it felt as if I'd actually done them. Tomorrow I might decide to write about hunting in Alaska, or being a computer hacker, or an actor. That, to me, is the greatest part of being a writer.
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