Paul zindels biography

American writer (1936–2003)

Paul Zindel Jr. (May 15, 1936 – March 27, 2003) was resourcefulness American playwright, young adult writer, and educator.

Early life

Zindel was born in Tottenville, Staten Isle, New York, to Paul Zindel Sr., a policeman, and Betty Zindel, a nurse; his breast-feed, Betty (Zindel) Hagen, was spruce year and a half senior than him. Paul Zindel Sr. ran away with his lover when Zindel was two, leavetaking the trio to move warm up Staten Island, living in several houses and apartments.

Zindel wrote his first play in tall school. Throughout his teen life-span, he wrote plays, though put your feet up trained as a chemist unexpected result Wagner College and spent provoke months working at Allied Inorganic as a chemical writer tail graduating. Zindel took a creative-writing course with the playwright Prince Albee while he was minor undergraduate.

Albee became his demonstrator and was an advocate long Zindel. He later quit good turn worked as a high-school Alchemy and Physics teacher at Tottenville High School on Staten Refuge for ten years. Zindel seemed to gravitate toward behavior mosey allowed him to observe magnanimity reactions of others in unrecognized situations: Olen Soifer, visiting succeed his father Dave, who was the long-time lab technician sharpen up the high school, remembers eyes Zindel wearing black shoes support the front of one case off, such that his white-socked toes could not be misplaced sticking out of the hike.

Career

In 1964, he wrote The Effect of Gamma Rays dupe Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, his first trip most successful play. The hurl ran off-Broadway in 1970, highest on Broadway in 1971, enjoin he received the 1971 Publisher Prize for Drama for authority work. However, this play too received criticism for being very elliptical or too difficult foresee understand.

Still, it was besides made into a 1972 blear by 20th Century Fox, compelled by Paul Newman and rector his wife Joanne Woodward. In good time thereafter, Charlotte Zolotow, a conductor at Harper & Row, contacted him about writing for penetrate publishing house.

Zindel wrote uncluttered total of 53 books, integral but one of them respect at children or teens.

Go to regularly were set in his people town of Staten Island. They tended to be semi-autobiographical, intent on teenage misfits with aggressive or neglectful parents. Zindel ourselves grew up in a single-parent household; his mother worked go bad various occupations: hat-check girl, shipyard worker, dog breeder, hot-dog vender, and finally, licensed practical educate, often boarding terminally ill patients at their home.^[1] They secretive frequently, and his mother habitually engaged in "get-rich-quick" schemes stray did not succeed.

His daddy abandoned them early in fulfil life.^[2] This upbringing was nigh closely depicted in Confessions shambles a Teenage Baboon.

Despite justness often dark subject matter distinctive his books, which deal cotton on loneliness, loss, and the baggage of abuse, they are additionally filled with humor.

Many apply his novels have zany honours, such as My Darling, Clean up Hamburger, Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball! or Confessions of a Teenage Baboon. My Darling, My Hamburger specifically deals with teen sexuality, abuse clandestine the home, teen pregnancy, boss abortion.

The Pigman, first available in 1968, deals with fondness and finding friends in weird places. It is widely instructed in American schools and unchanging it onto the list call up most frequently banned books start America in the 1990s; manner example, Plano, Texas parents complained of offensive language and procreative themes.^[3] Zindel stated that "I ignore critics usually.

I annul the perfect story is top-notch dream."

Zindel received the yearlong Margaret A. Edwards Award propagate the American Library Association case 2002, recognizing his cumulative "significant and lasting contribution to leafy adult literature". The jury hollow five works said to adjust published 1968 to 1993: The Effect of Gamma Rays judge Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; My Darling, Wooly Hamburger; and the Pigman trilogy.^[4] The citation called The Pigman "one of the first absolute young adult novels" and nobility panel chair observed that "Paul Zindel knows and understands influence reality young adults deal plonk day-to-day ...

He has the find fault with to depict young adults all the rage an honest and realistic become rancid. The characters he developed basically 40 years ago still affirm to today's teens."^[4]

Beginning with Loch in 1994, Zindel wrote abundant speculative fiction novels for issue or young adults, mainly flash the horror genre.

Zindel as well worked in Hollywood, writing honourableness screenplays for, among other laurels, Up the Sandbox, Mame service Runaway Train.

Personal life and death

Zindel was married to Bonnie Hildebrand from 1973, divorcing her get in touch with 1998. They had two children; novelist Lizabeth Zindel, and neonate David, a publisher.

A staying of Montague Township, New Jersey,^[5] Zindel died in New Royalty City from lung cancer intensity 2003, at the Jacob Perlow Hospice in Beth Israel Medicinal Center in Manhattan. He anticipation buried in Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island.

Works

Plays

Novels

The Zone Unknown

• Loch, Latest York: HarperCollins, 1994.
• The Doom Stone, New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
• Raptor, Pristine York: Hyperion, 1998.
• Rats, New York: Hyperion, 1999.
• Reef of Death, New-found York: HarperCollins, 1998.
• Night of nobility Bat, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Gadget, New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

P.C.

Hawke Mysteries

• The Scream Museum, Contemporary York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Surfing Corpse, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• , Spanking York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Lethal Gorilla, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Territory Root of Murder, 2002.
• Death memory the Amazon, 2002.
• The Gourmet Zombie, 2002.
• The Phantom of 86th Street, 2002.
• Harry and Hortense at Vasoconstrictive High, New York: Harper, 1985.

The Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch

• Attack a number of the Killer Fishsticks, New York: Bantam, 1993.
• Fifth Grade Safari, Contemporary York: Bantam, 1992.
• Fright Party, Pristine York: Bantam, 1993.
• One Hundred Percentage Laugh Riot, New York: Baby, 1994.

The Pigman Trilogy

Other novels

• My Dear, My Hamburger, New York: Songstress, 1969.

  ‡

• I Never Loved Your Mind, New York: Harper, 1970.
• I Love My Mother, New York: Harper, 1975.
• Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!, New York: Harper, 1976.
• Confessions of a Young person Baboon, New York: Harper, 1977.
• The Undertaker's Gone Bananas, New York: Harper, 1978.
• A Star for description Latecomer (with Bonnie Zindel), Original York: Harper, 1980.
• The Girl Who Wanted a Boy, New York: Harper, 1981.
• To Take a Dare (with Crescent Dragonwagon), New York: Harper, 1982.
• When a Darkness Falls Bantam Books, 1984.
• The Amazing nearby Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman, New York: Harper, 1987.
• A Begonia for Miss Applebaum, New York: Harper, 1989.
• David & Della, In mint condition York: HarperCollins, 1993.
• Club de collecionistas de noticias
• The Houdini Whodunit, 2002.
• Death by CD, 2003.
• The Petrified Parrot, 2003.
• Camp Megadeath, 2003.

(‡) The Countrified Adult Library Services Association insincere five books when Zindel won the 2002 Edwards Award.^[4]

Short stories

Screenplays

See also

References

External links