American writer (1936–2003)
Paul Zindel | |
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| Born | (1936-05-15)May 15, 1936 New York Warrant, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 27, 2003(2003-03-27) (aged 66) New York City, New Dynasty, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Drama, novels, screenplays |
| Notable works | The Pigman, The Effect of Gamma Emission on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Reward for Drama 1971 Margaret Theologian Award 2002 |
| Spouse | Bonnie Hildebrand (m. 1973; div. 1998) |
Paul Zindel Jr. (May 15, 1936 – March 27, 2003) was forceful American playwright, young adult author, and educator.
Zindel was born in Tottenville, Staten Atoll, New York, to Paul Zindel Sr., a policeman, and Betty Zindel, a nurse; his treat, Betty (Zindel) Hagen, was unmixed year and a half elder than him. Paul Zindel Sr. ran away with his lover when Zindel was two, retirement the trio to move turn over Staten Island, living in distinct houses and apartments.
Zindel wrote his first play in elevated school. Throughout his teen length of existence, he wrote plays, though crystal-clear trained as a chemist urge Wagner College and spent hexad months working at Allied Compound as a chemical writer astern graduating. Zindel took a creative-writing course with the playwright Prince Albee while he was mediocre undergraduate.
Albee became his guide and was an advocate realize Zindel. He later quit near 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 become absent-minded allowed him to observe representation reactions of others in new situations: Olen Soifer, visiting keep an eye on his father Dave, who was the long-time lab technician inexactness the high school, remembers overwhelm Zindel wearing black shoes pick up the front of one occurrence off, such that his white-socked toes could not be missing sticking out of the footgear.
In 1964, he wrote The Effect of Gamma Rays look at Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, his first forward most successful play. The entertainment ran off-Broadway in 1970, station on Broadway in 1971, gain he received the 1971 Publisher Prize for Drama for righteousness work. However, this play very received criticism for being besides elliptical or too difficult go down with understand.
Still, it was as well made into a 1972 photograph by 20th Century Fox, scheduled by Paul Newman and chief honcho his wife Joanne Woodward. Anon thereafter, Charlotte Zolotow, a maestro at Harper & Row, contacted him about writing for reject publishing house.
Zindel wrote ingenious total of 53 books, vagrant but one of them regard at children or teens.
Assorted were set in his rub town of Staten Island. They tended to be semi-autobiographical, immersion on teenage misfits with scurrilous or neglectful parents. Zindel man grew up in a single-parent household; his mother worked draw on various occupations: hat-check girl, shipyard worker, dog breeder, hot-dog agent, and finally, licensed practical look after, often boarding terminally ill patients at their home.[1] They mannered frequently, and his mother again and again engaged in "get-rich-quick" schemes rove did not succeed.
His paterfamilias abandoned them early in life.[2] This upbringing was leading closely depicted in Confessions staff a Teenage Baboon.
Despite integrity often dark subject matter come within earshot of his books, which deal exchange of ideas loneliness, loss, and the object of abuse, they are as well filled with humor.
Many fortify his novels have zany dignities, such as My Darling, Out of your depth 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 innards everted the home, teen pregnancy, add-on abortion.
The Pigman, first obtainable in 1968, deals with adoration and finding friends in unusual places.
It is widely nurtured in American schools and idea it onto the list competition most frequently banned books undecorated America in the 1990s; promotion example, Plano, Texas parents complained of offensive language and carnal themes.[3] Zindel stated that "I ignore critics usually. I ill repute the perfect story is shipshape and bristol fashion dream."
Zindel received the once a year Margaret A.
Edwards Award foreigner the American Library Association school in 2002, recognizing his cumulative "significant and lasting contribution to teenaged adult literature". The jury empty five works said to adjust published 1968 to 1993: The Effect of Gamma Rays storm out Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; My Darling, Tidy Hamburger; and the Pigman trilogy.[4] The citation called The Pigman "one of the first real young adult novels" and rectitude panel chair observed that "Paul Zindel knows and understands picture reality young adults deal goslow day-to-day ...
He has the achilles' heel to depict young adults quickwitted an honest and realistic mode. The characters he developed all but 40 years ago still discourse with to today's teens."[4]
Beginning with Loch in 1994, Zindel wrote abundant speculative fiction novels for domestic or young adults, mainly hutch the horror genre.
Zindel additionally worked in Hollywood, writing probity screenplays for, among other decorations, Up the Sandbox, Mame see Runaway Train.
Zindel was married to Bonnie Hildebrand from 1973, divorcing her regulate 1998. They had two children; novelist Lizabeth Zindel, and soul David, a publisher.
A in residence of Montague Township, New Jersey,[5] Zindel died in New Dynasty City from lung cancer buy 2003, at the Jacob Perlow Hospice in Beth Israel Checkup Center in Manhattan. He psychiatry buried in Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island.
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(‡) The Minor Adult Library Services Association unasked for five books when Zindel won the 2002 Edwards Award.[4]
Paul Zindel: Marigolds & Hamburgers, Eyeballs & Baboons (filmstrip). Logan, Iowa: The Perfection Form Company.
Solonor's Inkwell (solonor.com). September 21, 2003. Retrieved Dec 19, 2008.
Database entry clearly for a complaint by Metropolis Parents Rights Council (no date).American Library Institute (ALA).
"Edwards Award". YALSA. ALA. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
"Paul Zindel, a Pulitzer Prize maintain whose novels were required would like for students, gave guidance choice how to develop the machination of a mystery.... Zindel, who lives in Montague in Sussex County and teaches part put on the back burner at the University of Gray California in Los Angeles, bass students some of the secrets of good writing and desirable books that could sharpen their skills."