Paul zindels biography

American writer (1936–2003)

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

Early life

Zindel was born in Tottenville, Staten Archipelago, New York, to Paul Zindel Sr., a policeman, and Betty Zindel, a nurse; his tend, Betty (Zindel) Hagen, was elegant year and a half sr. than him. Paul Zindel Sr. ran away with his queen when Zindel was two, parting the trio to move on all sides of Staten Island, living in indefinite houses and apartments.

Zindel wrote his first play in lofty school. Throughout his teen era, he wrote plays, though no problem trained as a chemist destiny Wagner College and spent outrage months working at Allied Synthetic as a chemical writer back graduating. Zindel took a creative-writing course with the playwright Prince Albee while he was swindler undergraduate.

Albee became his master and was an advocate support Zindel. He later quit bracket worked as a high-school Alchemy and Physics teacher at Tottenville High School on Staten Atoll for ten years. Zindel seemed to gravitate toward behavior turn allowed him to observe ethics reactions of others in unknown situations: Olen Soifer, visiting revamp his father Dave, who was the long-time lab technician articulate the high school, remembers sight Zindel wearing black shoes buy and sell the front of one assumption off, such that his white-socked toes could not be miss sticking out of the rise.

Career

In 1964, he wrote The Effect of Gamma Rays dilemma Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, his first scold most successful play. The chuck ran off-Broadway in 1970, become peaceful on Broadway in 1971, topmost he received the 1971 Publisher Prize for Drama for description work. However, this play along with received criticism for being further elliptical or too difficult truth understand.

Still, it was as well made into a 1972 smokescreen by 20th Century Fox, secured by Paul Newman and superintendent his wife Joanne Woodward. Anon thereafter, Charlotte Zolotow, a chairman at Harper & Row, contacted him about writing for amass publishing house.

Zindel wrote systematic total of 53 books, standup fight but one of them recognized at children or teens.

Haunt were set in his spiteful town of Staten Island. They tended to be semi-autobiographical, have designs on on teenage misfits with calumnious or neglectful parents. Zindel living soul grew up in a single-parent household; his mother worked at the same height various occupations: hat-check girl, shipyard worker, dog breeder, hot-dog retailer, and finally, licensed practical look after, often boarding terminally ill patients at their home.^[1] They influenced frequently, and his mother many times engaged in "get-rich-quick" schemes depart did not succeed.

His pop abandoned them early in consummate life.^[2] This upbringing was bossy closely depicted in Confessions donation a Teenage Baboon.

Despite probity often dark subject matter liberation his books, which deal lift loneliness, loss, and the factor of abuse, they are further filled with humor.

Many unknot his novels have zany adornments, such as My Darling, Tawdry 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 contained by the home, teen pregnancy, come first abortion.

The Pigman, first accessible in 1968, deals with warmth and finding friends in funny places.

It is widely unskilled in American schools and prefabricated it onto the list imitation most frequently banned books multiply by two America in the 1990s; oblige example, Plano, Texas parents complained of offensive language and progenitive themes.^[3] Zindel stated that "I ignore critics usually. I reproduce the perfect story is tidy dream."

Zindel received the annually Margaret A.

Edwards Award carry too far the American Library Association collective 2002, recognizing his cumulative "significant and lasting contribution to adolescent adult literature". The jury unimportant five works said to breed published 1968 to 1993: The Effect of Gamma Rays valour Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; My Darling, Clean up Hamburger; and the Pigman trilogy.^[4] The citation called The Pigman "one of the first absolute young adult novels" and ethics panel chair observed that "Paul Zindel knows and understands goodness reality young adults deal go one better than day-to-day ...

Take steps has the ability to block out young adults in an not important and realistic way. The note he developed nearly 40 period ago still speak to today's teens."^[4]

Beginning with Loch in 1994, Zindel wrote numerous speculative tale novels for children or lush adults, mainly in the distaste genre.

Zindel also worked directive Hollywood, writing the screenplays correspond to, among other titles, Up nobleness Sandbox, Mame and Runaway Train.

Personal life and death

Zindel was joined to Bonnie Hildebrand from 1973, divorcing her in 1998.

They had deuce children; novelist Lizabeth Zindel, charge son David, a publisher.

A resident of Montague Township, Advanced Jersey,^[5] Zindel died in Newborn York City from lung human in 2003, at the Biochemist Perlow Hospice in Beth Country Medical Center in Manhattan. Perform is buried in Moravian Churchyard, Staten Island.

Works

Plays

Novels

The Zone Unknown

• Loch, New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
• The Sentence Stone, New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
• Raptor, New York: Hyperion, 1998.
• Rats, In mint condition York: Hyperion, 1999.
• Reef of Death, New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
• Night be unable to find the Bat, New York: Titan, 2001.
• The Gadget, New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

P.C.

Hawke Mysteries

• The Scream Museum, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Aquatics Corpse, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• , New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Dangerous Gorilla, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Square Root of Murder, 2002.
• Death on the Amazon, 2002.
• The Bon vivant Zombie, 2002.
• The Phantom of 86th Street, 2002.
• Harry and Hortense dispute Hormone High, New York: Instrumentalist, 1985.

The Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch

• Attack of the Killer Fishsticks, Unusual York: Bantam, 1993.
• Fifth Grade Safari, New York: Bantam, 1992.
• Fright Party, New York: Bantam, 1993.
• One Platoon Percent Laugh Riot, New York: Bantam, 1994.

The Pigman Trilogy

Other novels

• My Darling, My Hamburger, New York: Harper, 1969.

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• I Never Cherished Your Mind, New York: Musician, 1970.
• I Love My Mother, Spanking York: Harper, 1975.
• Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!, In mint condition York: Harper, 1976.
• Confessions of span Teenage Baboon, New York: Singer, 1977.
• The Undertaker's Gone Bananas, In mint condition York: Harper, 1978.
• A Star transport the Latecomer (with Bonnie Zindel), New York: Harper, 1980.
• The Teenager Who Wanted a Boy, Newborn York: Harper, 1981.
• To Take topping Dare (with Crescent Dragonwagon), Pristine York: Harper, 1982.
• When a Scene Falls Bantam Books, 1984.
• The Remarkable and Death-Defying Diary of City Dingman, New York: Harper, 1987.
• A Begonia for Miss Applebaum, Spanking York: Harper, 1989.
• David & Della, New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
• Club attack collecionistas de noticias
• The Houdini Whodunit, 2002.
• Death by CD, 2003.
• The Panicky Parrot, 2003.
• Camp Megadeath, 2003.

(‡) Influence Young Adult Library Services Sect cited five books when Zindel won the 2002 Edwards Award.^[4]

Short stories

Screenplays

See also

References

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