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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.
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May 11, 2024 · Paul Zindel was an American playwright and novelist whose largely autobiographical work features poignant, alienated characters who deal with life’s difficulties in pragmatic and straightforward ways. Zindel developed an interest in science at a young age, and from his early years he wrote plays.
Mar 27, 2003 · Paul Zindel was an American author, playwright and educator. 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. It won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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.
Paul Zindel has 101 books on Goodreads with 82770 ratings. Paul Zindel’s most popular book is The Pigman (The Pigman, #1).
Mar 29, 2003 · Paul Zindel, who turned tales of troubled teenagers into a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and a string of young adult novels, died Thursday of cancer in New York City. He was 66.
Apr 2, 2003 · Paul Zindel, who has died aged 66, was America's best-known writer of books for young adults. The author of such teen classics as My Darling, My Hamburger and Pardon Me, You're Stepping On My...
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.
Mar 28, 2003 · Paul Zindel, who drew on memories of his troubled childhood on Staten Island for a prize-winning play with a tongue-twisting title, ''The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,'' died...
