Paul zindel biography pigman minecraft

American writer (–)

Paul Zindel
Born	()May 15, New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	March 27, () (aged&#;66) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Drama, novels, screenplays
Notable works	The Pigman, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Drama Margaret Edwards Award
Spouse	Bonnie Hildebrand &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;

Paul Zindel Jr. (May 15, – March 27, ) was an American playwright, young adult novelist, and educator.

Early life

Zindel was born in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York, to Paul Zindel Sr., a policeman, and Betty Zindel, a nurse; his sister, Betty (Zindel) Hagen, was a year and a half older than him. Paul Zindel Sr. ran away with his mistress when Zindel was two, leaving the trio to move around Staten Island, living in various houses and apartments.

Zindel wrote his first play in high school. Throughout his teen years, he wrote plays, though he trained as a chemist at Wagner College and spent six months working at Allied Chemical as a chemical writer after graduating.

The pigman by paul zindel He unloaded a wine press, boxes of grapes, lots of plants, and bags of sheep manure. Pignati's, just having a little party, just having a good time. John decides that while Mr. Gorgeously plumed pheasants strutted about the lush lawns.

Zindel took a creative-writing course with the playwright Edward Albee while he was an undergraduate. Albee became his mentor and was an advocate for Zindel. He later quit and worked as a high-school Chemistry and Physics teacher at Tottenville High School on Staten Island for ten years. Zindel seemed to gravitate toward behavior that allowed him to observe the reactions of others in strange situations: Olen Soifer, visiting with his father Dave, who was the long-time lab technician at the high school, remembers seeing Zindel wearing black shoes with the front of one cut off, such that his white-socked toes could not be missed sticking out of the shoe.

Career

In , 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 , and on Broadway in , and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. However, this play also received criticism for being too elliptical or too difficult to understand.

Paul zindel biography pigman minecraft Pride is not a quality I allow myself to feel. In addition, John, who feels dispossessed and alienated by his family, has picked up a number of self-destructive habits, such as smoking and drinking, and at one point Lorraine tells him, "You must want to die. Carefree, they eat the food, drink wine, and listen to his jokes. Pignati dies and John is personally touched by the loss.

Still, it was also made into a movie by 20th Century Fox, directed by Paul Newman and starring his wife Joanne Woodward. Soon thereafter, Charlotte Zolotow, a vice-president at Harper & Row, contacted him about writing for her publishing house.

Zindel wrote a total of 53 books, all but one of them aimed at children or teens. Many were set in his home town of Staten Island.

They tended to be semi-autobiographical, focusing on teenage misfits with abusive or neglectful parents.

Paul zindel: Is that a fair characterization? I want to be me. In Lorraine's house, her mother hassles her about hanging out with boys, asks her to stay home from school to clean the house, won't let her use the phone, makes derogatory comments about her appearance, and occasionally hits her. It is the kind of story that just sort of pops right out of you, because you've lived it.

Zindel himself grew up in a single-parent household; his mother worked at various occupations: hat-check girl, shipyard worker, dog breeder, hot-dog vendor, and finally, licensed practical nurse, often boarding terminally ill patients at their home.^[1] They moved frequently, and his mother often engaged in "get-rich-quick" schemes that did not succeed.

His father abandoned them early in his life.^[2] This upbringing was most closely depicted in Confessions of a Teenage Baboon.

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 zany titles, such as My Darling, My 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 within the home, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

The Pigman, first published in , deals with love and finding friends in odd places. It is widely taught in American schools and made it onto the list of most frequently banned books in America in the s; for example, Plano, Texas parents complained of offensive language and sexual themes.^[3] Zindel stated that "I ignore critics usually.

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I believe the perfect story is a dream."

Zindel received the annual Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in , recognizing his cumulative "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". The jury cited five works said to be published to The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; My Darling, My Hamburger; and the Pigman trilogy.^[4] The citation called The Pigman "one of the first authentic young adult novels" and the panel chair observed that "Paul Zindel knows and understands the reality young adults deal with day-to-day&#; He has the ability to depict young adults in an honest and realistic way.

The characters he developed nearly 40 years ago still speak to today's teens."^[4]

Beginning with Loch in , Zindel wrote numerous speculative fiction novels for children or young adults, mainly in the horror genre.

Zindel also worked in Hollywood, writing the screenplays for, among other titles, Up the Sandbox, Mame and Runaway Train.

Personal life and death

Zindel was married to Bonnie Hildebrand from , divorcing her in They had two children; novelist Lizabeth Zindel, and son David, a publisher.

A resident of Montague Township, New Jersey,^[5] Zindel died in New York City from lung cancer in , at the Jacob Perlow Hospice in Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.

Paul zindel biography pigman minecraft server And don't put grease on your hair the night before you're going to have a big test, because everything might slip your mind. They were both abandoned and scorned by their husbands, and left with their kids -- both trying not to starve to death in this particular, fascinating town of xenophobic, exotic bubushkas and kielbasas. It is considered by many in the field to be the first truly YA book. However, they can't take back what they've begun to feel for each other.

He is buried in Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island.

Works

Plays

Novels

The Zone Unknown

• Loch, New York: HarperCollins,
• The Doom Stone, New York: HarperCollins,
• Raptor, New York: Hyperion,
• Rats, New York: Hyperion,
• Reef of Death, New York: HarperCollins,
• Night of the Bat, New York: Hyperion,
• The Gadget, New York: HarperCollins,

P.C.

Hawke Mysteries

• The Scream Museum, New York: Hyperion,
• The Surfing Corpse, New York: Hyperion,
• The E-Mail Murders, New York: Hyperion,
• The Lethal Gorilla, New York: Hyperion,
• The Square Root of Murder,
• Death on the Amazon,
• The Gourmet Zombie,
• The Phantom of 86th Street,
• Harry and Hortense at Hormone High, New York: Harper,

The Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch

• Attack of the Killer Fishsticks, New York: Bantam,
• Fifth Grade Safari, New York: Bantam,
• Fright Party, New York: Bantam,
• One Hundred Percent Laugh Riot, New York: Bantam,

The Pigman Trilogy

Other novels

• My Darling, My Hamburger, New York: Harper, ‡
• I Never Loved Your Mind, New York: Harper,
• I Love My Mother, New York: Harper,
• Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!, New York: Harper,
• Confessions of a Teenage Baboon, New York: Harper,
• The Undertaker's Gone Bananas, New York: Harper,
• A Star for the Latecomer (with Bonnie Zindel), New York: Harper,
• The Girl Who Wanted a Boy, New York: Harper,
• To Take a Dare (with Crescent Dragonwagon), New York: Harper,
• When a Darkness Falls Bantam Books,
• The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman, New York: Harper,
• A Begonia for Miss Applebaum, New York: Harper,
• David & Della, New York: HarperCollins,
• Club de collecionistas de noticias
• The Houdini Whodunit,
• Death by CD,
• The Petrified Parrot,
• Camp Megadeath,

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

Short stories

Screenplays

See also

References

External links