Paul Zindel

Paul Zindel (b. May 15, 1936 in New York City; d. March 27, 2003) was an American author, playwright and educator. is the 135th day of the year (136th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Early life

Throughout his teen years he wrote plays, though he trained as a chemist at Wagner College and spent six months working at Allied Chemical after graduating. He later quit and worked as a high schooL science teacher at Tottenville High School located on Staten Island. Wagner College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located on Staten Island in New York City. ... // Tottenville High School is located at 100 Luten Ave. ... This article is about the borough in New York City. ...

Writing career

In 1964, he wrote The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, his first and most successful play. The play ran off-Broadway in 1970, and on Broadway in 1971. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher (many of his works focus on science or youth), in 1964, and was the 1971 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Obie, and the New...

It won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was also made into a 1972 movie by 20th Century Fox. Charlotte Zolotow, then a vice-president at Harper & Row (now Harper-Collins) contacted him to writing for her book label. Zindel wrote 39 books, all of them aimed at children or young adults. Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Charlotte Zolotow (born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro June 26, 1915) is an American author, poet, and editor of many books for children. ... Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819. ...

Many of these were set in his home town of Staten Island, New York. They tended to be semi-autobiographical, focusing on teenage misfits with abusive or neglectful parents. Zindel himself grew up in a single-parent household, his mother working as a nurse. They moved frequently, and his mother often engaged in "get-rich-quick" schemes which didn't pan out.^[1] His father abandoned them.^[2] For other uses, see Staten Island (disambiguation) Staten Island, shown in an enhanced satellite image Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located on an island of the same name on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor. ...

Despite the often dark subject matter of his books, which deal with loneliness, loss, and the effects of abuse, they are also filled with humor. Many of his novels have wacky titles, such as My Darling, My Hamburger, or Confessions of A Teenage Baboon.

The Pigman, first published in 1968, is widely taught in American schools, and also made it on to the list of most frequently banned books in America in the 1990s, because of what some deem offensive language ^[3] The Pigman is a book for young adults written by Paul Zindel, first published in 1968. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On March 27, 2003 he died of lung cancer even though he was not a smoker. He is survived by two children, Lizabeth Zindel a published novelist, playwright and actress and filmmaker David Zindel. is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...

List of works

Plays

• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, 1965.
• Let Me Hear You Whipser
• The Ladies Should Be In Bed
• And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, 1967
• The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, 1972
• Every 17 Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy
• Ladies At The Alamo, 1977
• Amulets Against the Dragon Forces, 1998

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher (many of his works focus on science or youth), in 1964, and was the 1971 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Obie, and the New... And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little is an American play written by Paul Zindel and published by Dramatists Play Services. ... Amulets Against the Dragon Forces is a play by Paul Zindel. ...

Books

• The Pigman, New York: Harper, 1968.
• My Darling, My Hamburger, New York: Harper, 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 Teenage Baboon, New York: Harper, 1977.
• The Undertaker's Gone Bananas, New York: Harper, 1978.
• A Star for the Latecomer (with Bonnie Zindel), New York: Harper, 1980.
• The Pigman's Legacy, New York: Harper, 1980.
• The Girl Who Wanted a Boy, New York: Harper, 1981.
• To Take a Dare (with Crescent Dragonwagon), New York: Harper, 1982.
• Harry and Hortense at Hormone High, New York: Harper, 1985.
• The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman, New York: Harper, 1987.
• A Begonia for Miss Applebaum, New York: Harper, 1989.
• The Pigman and Me, New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
• Attack of the Killer Fishsticks, New York: Bantam, 1993.
• Fifth Grade Safari, New York: Bantam, 1992.
• Fright Party, New York: Bantam, 1993.
• David & Della, New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
• One Hundred Percent Laugh Riot, New York: Bantam, 1994.
• Loch, New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
• The Doom Stone, New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
• Raptor, New York: Hyperion, 1998.
• Reef of Death, New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
• Rats, New York: Hyperion, 1999.
• The Gadget, New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
• Night of the Bat, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Scream Museum, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Surfing Corpse, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The E-Mail Murders, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Lethal Gorilla, New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Square Root of Murder, 2002.
• Death on the Amazon, 2002.
• The Gourmet Zombie, 2002.
• The Phantom of 86th Street, 2002.
• The Houdini Whodunit, 2002.
• Death by CD, 2003.
• The Petrified Parrot, 2003.
• Camp Megadeath, 2003.

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Screenplay

Zindel wrote the screenplay for the 1974 film version of the musical Mame, which starred Lucille Ball. He also wrote the screenplay for Up The Sandbox which starred Barbara Streisand. In 1985 Paul Zindel wrote the screenplay for Runaway Train (film) which starred John Voight, Eric Roberts, and Rebbeca De Mornay and it was nominated for 3 oscars. He also wrote television adaptations of Babes in Toyland, which starred Keanu Reeves & Drew Barrymore; he also wrote the screenplay for Alice in Wonderland (1985 film) which had an all-star cast; and also wrote the script for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Mame is a 1974 American musical film. ... Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, glamour girl and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Heres Lucy. ... Barbra Streisand on the cover of her album Higher Ground Barbra Streisand (born April 24, American singer and film actress, producer, and director. ... Runaway Train is a 1985 film which tells the story of two escaped convicts and a female train worker who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska. ... Marcheline Bertrand and Jon Voight Jonathan Voight (born December 29, 1938 in Yonkers, New York) is an American actor. ... Eric Anthony Roberts (born on April 18, 1956, in Biloxi, Mississippi) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ... See: Babes in Toyland (band) Babes in Toyland (operetta) by Victor Herbert Babes in Toyland (1934 movie) with Laurel and Hardy Babes in Toyland (1961 movie) with Annette Funicello and Tommy Sands Babes in Toyland (1986 movie) with Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves Babes in Toyland (1997 movie) - an animated... Keanu Charles Reeves (pronounced ; born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor. ... Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. ... This 1985 adaptation of Lewis Carrolls story, Alice in Wonderland, was made for television and used a huge all-star cast of notable actors and actresses, including Steve Allen, Lloyd Bridges, Red Buttons, Sid Caesar, Carol Channing, Sammy Davis Jr. ... A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. ...

References

1. ^ Zindel, Paul: Journey To Meet the Pigman, The Alan Review, Fall 1994
2. ^ ibid
3. ^ Banned Books archives.

External links

• Authorized web page, filled with details and photographs from his life.