Klass, David: - David Klass is the author of many young adult novels, including You Don\'t Know Me , Losers Take All , and Grandmaster .
He now lives in New York with his wife and two children..
He taught English in Japan, and wrote his first novel, The Atami Dragons , about that experience.
He studied at Yale University, where he won the Veech Award for Best Imaginative Writing.
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.
But he started loving the adventure stories his parents would bring home from the library-particularly Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre Dumas.
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.
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, David: - David Klass is the author of many young adult novels, including You Don\'t Know Me , Losers Take All , and Grandmaster
