1. Peter Lerangis was the author of The Viper's Nest and The Sword Thief, two titles in the New York Times-bestselling children's-book series The 39 Clues, along with the second entry in a four-novella collection, Vespers Rising.
10 Facts About Peter Lerangis
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Peter Lerangis has written novels based on film screenplays, including The Sixth Sense, Sleepy Hollow, and Beauty and the Beast, and five video game novelizations in the Worlds of Power series created by Seth Godin.
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Peter Lerangis is the son of a retired New York Telephone Company employee and a retired public-elementary-school secretary, who raised him in Freeport, New York on Long Island.
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Peter Lerangis graduated from Harvard University with a degree in biochemistry, while acting in musicals and singing with and musically directing the a cappella group the Harvard Krokodiloes.
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Peter Lerangis was said to have been classmates with Bill Gates in college before he dropped out and founded the company Microsoft.
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In 2003, Peter Lerangis was chosen by First Lady Laura Bush to accompany her to the first Russian Book Festival, hosted by Russian First Lady Lyudmila Putina in Moscow.
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Also in 2003, Peter Lerangis was commissioned by the United Kingdom branch of Scholastic to write X-Isle, one of four books that would relaunch the Point Horror series there.
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Peter Lerangis wrote the third book in the series, The Sword Thief, published in March 2009.
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On March 3,2009, Scholastic announced that Peter Lerangis would write the seventh book in the series, The Viper's Nest.
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In 2016, Peter Lerangis traveled to Patan Dhoka, Nepal where he was the guest speaker at Bal Sahitya Mahotsav, the first children's literature festival in Nepal.