David Klass has published seventeen award-winning young adult novels, including California Blue, You Don’t Know Me, and Firestorm, an environmental thriller and the first novel endorsed by Greenpeace. His most recent book, Stuck on Earth, features a snail-like alien who inhabits the brain of a fourteen-year-old boy. Klass has also written more than thirty screenplays, including Kiss the Girls, In the Time of the Butterflies and Walking Tall, and in 2010, he was a writer-producer for television’s Law and Order: Criminal Intent. He lives with his wife and two children in Manhattan.