David Klass has written several other young adult novels, including You Don't Know Me, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. He lives in New York City.
David Klass is the author of many young adult novels, including
You Don't Know Me,
Losers Take All, and
Grandmaster. He is also a Hollywood screenwriter, having written more than twenty-five action screenplays, including
Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd,
Walking Tall, starring The Rock, and
Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia. Klass grew up in a family that loved literature and theater-his parents were both college professors and writers-but he was a reluctant reader, preferring sports to books. But he started loving the adventure stories his parents would bring home from the library-particularly Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre Dumas. After his sister twice won a story contest in
Seventeen magazine, Klass decided he would win it too, and when he was a senior in high school, he did, publishing his first story, "Ringtoss," in the magazine. He studied at Yale University, where he won the Veech Award for Best Imaginative Writing. He taught English in Japan, and wrote his first novel,
The Atami Dragons, about that experience. He now lives in New York with his wife and two children.
