Paul Zindel





Paul Zindel

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born
May 15, 1936 in New York, The United States

died
March 27, 2003

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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. 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. 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. Despite the often dark subject matter of his books, w...more


Average rating: 3.57 · 14,516 ratings · 990 reviews · 56 distinct works
The Pigman
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 8,036 ratings — published 1968 — 32 editions
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 1,382 ratings — published 1965 — 16 editions
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My Darling, My Hamburger
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 1,063 ratings — published 1969 — 16 editions
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The Pigman's Legacy
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 645 ratings21 editions
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Pardon Me, You're Stepping ...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 550 ratings12 editions
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The Pigman and Me (Bantam S...
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions
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I Never Loved Your Mind
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 1970 — 10 editions
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Loch
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1994 — 15 editions
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Confessions of a Teenage Ba...
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 240 ratings12 editions
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The Undertaker's Gone Bananas
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1978 — 13 editions
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3.6183574879227054 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 207 ratings
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“Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.”
Paul Zindel, The Pigman

“In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .”
Paul Zindel

“She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell the truth all the time? To run around saying it did matter to me that I live in a world where you can grow old and be alone and have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for friends? A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind’s a bit senile or silly? Did she think that didn’t bother me underneath?”
Paul Zindel, The Pigman

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