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Paul Zindel
biography
Paul Zindel Obituary
New York Times
Mr. Zindel had been a high school chemistry teacher for six years, demonstrating basic chemical reactions and explaining concepts like atomic numbers and covalent bonds, when ''The Effect of Gamma Rays'' opened in Houston. As with other plays that were staged before he quit teaching in 1969, he had written it in his spare time and seemed to relish his outsider status -- he never went to the theater, he said, until he was already a published playwright...
Remembering Paul Zindel
by Don Gallo
We've lost a giant in the field of books for teens. An in credibly talented person. A nutty, fun-loving, kid-loving guy. A brilliant thinker.
The New York Times obituary focused on his Pulitzer Prizewinning play, The Effect of Man-in-the Moon Marigolds, which was, of course, no small contribution to theater. But they minimized what we in the world of Young Adult Literature know so well...
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Paul Zindel
American writer (1936–2003)
Paul Zindel | |
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| Born | (1936-05-15)May 15, 1936 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 27, 2003(2003-03-27) (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 1971 Margaret Edwards Award 2002 |
| Spouse | Bonnie Hildebrand (m. 1973; div. 1998) |
Paul Zindel Jr. (May 15, 1936 – March 27, 2003) 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 ye
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Paul Zindel
biography
My Biography
by Paul Zindel
(for Scholastic)
I grew up on Staten Island with my mother and sister. When I was young, my father left the family, and I saw him about every other Christmas. My mother struggled to get money from him, and tried to keep us together, moving from apartment to apartment and coming up with "get-rich-quick" schemes. But because we moved around so much, each town offered a lush new backdrop for my imagination. By the time I was ten I had gone nowhere, but had seen the world. I dared to speak and act my true feelings only in fantasy and secret. That's probably what made me a writer.
In high school, I wrote my first play. Some of my classmates got the impression I had a strange sense of humor — macabre, I believe, was the term they used. A group of student government officers asked me to create a hilarious sketch for an assembly to help raise money. I decided that even if I could not succeed in the real world, perhaps my appointed role in life was to help other people succeed.
I went to Wagner College on
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