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.