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Paul Zindel

Born

in New York, The United States

May 15, 1936

Died

March 27, 2003

Website

http://www.paulzindel.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Young Adult

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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, which ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 50,450 ratings · 3,192 reviews · 88 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Pigman (The Pigman, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 28,949 ratings — published 1968 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds 3.80 avg rating — 5,752 ratings — published 1964 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Darling, My Hamburger 3.62 avg rating — 3,321 ratings — published 1969 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball 3.74 avg rating — 1,830 ratings — published 1976 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pigman's Legacy (The Pigman, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 1,795 ratings — published 1984 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loch 3.64 avg rating — 1,136 ratings — published 1900 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pigman & Me (The Pigman, #3) 3.76 avg rating — 1,029 ratings — published 1992 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doom Stone 3.73 avg rating — 753 ratings — published 1959 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Never Loved Your Mind 3.68 avg rating — 738 ratings — published 1970 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confessions of a Teenage Baboon 3.71 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 1978 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.”
― Paul Zindel, The Pigman

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“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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“There was no one else to blame anymore. No Bores or Old Ladies or Nortons, or Assassins waiting at the bridge. And there was no place to hide-no place across any river for a boatman to take us.
Our life would be what we made of it-nothing more, nothing less.
Baboons.
Baboons.
They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him.”
― Paul Zindel, The Pigman

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What frequently challenged or banned book (or book about book banning) for children and/or young adults should we read in January and February 2010?

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

25 votes, 31.6%

The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar

9 votes, 11.4%

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff

9 votes, 11.4%

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck

8 votes, 10.1%

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

7 votes, 8.9%

My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier

5 votes, 6.3%

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

5 votes, 6.3%

The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney

5 votes, 6.3%

The Little Black Fish by صمد بهرنگی / Samad Behrangi

4 votes, 5.1%

The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene

2 votes, 2.5%

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