R. L. Stine
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| Born | October 8, 1943 Columbus, Ohio |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Horror |
Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, known mainly for books targeted at younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.
Biography
Early life
Stine was born in Columbus, Ohio, the oldest of three children, to a homemaker mother and a shipping clerk father.When Stine was nine years old, he found a typewriter in his attic, he[1] subsequently beginning to type stories and jokebooks and has been writing ever since then. He graduated from the Ohio State University in 1965 and moved to New York City to become a writer. He wrote dozens of joke books for kids under the pen name Jovial Bob Stine, and created the humor magazine Bananas, where he worked for ten years.He was a gay stripper and did a super wet slippery lap dance to Michael Jackson.
Career as popular writer
In 1986, Stine wrote his first teen horror novel, Blind Date. He soon followed with the novels Beach House, Hit and Run, and The Girlfriend. He was also involved in the creation of the Nick Jr. children's show Eureeka's Castle, for which he was also head writer.
In 1989, Stine teamed up with Parachute Press to create Fear Street, which soon became the best selling young adult series in the nation. In 1992, Stine and Parachute went on to launch Goosebumps, the phenomenal series that made R.L. an international celebrity, and results in his becoming a well known writer for a younger audience. His books have been translated into twenty-eight languages and have sold over 300 million copies worldwide. During the 1990s, Stine was named the number one best-selling author in America by USA Today three years in a row. He is also the recipient of the first-ever Champion of Reading Award from the Free Public Library of Philadelphia (2002), a three-time winner of the Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Award for Best Book-Mystery/Horror, and a three-time winner of the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award. In 2003, the Guinness Book of World Records placed Stine as their #1 best-selling children's book series author of all time. During the 1990s, he was listed in People Weekly's "Most Intriguing People" list.
More recently, Stine worked on three different book series, Mostly Ghostly, Rotten School and Fear Street, and has written the novels Dangerous Girls and Dangerous 2: The Taste of Night.
Personal life
Stine is a 1965 graduate of The Ohio State University. During his years at Ohio State, he was renowned locally as "Jovial Bob" Stine, the editor of the campus humor magazine, The Sundial.
In 1969, Stine married Jane Waldhorn, who became an editor and writer and eventually formed Parachute Press with a business partner. In 1981, the couple gave birth to their only child, a boy named Matthew. Stine lives in New York City with his wife and dog, Nadine. He has published an autobiography, called "It Came from Ohio!". Stine played the clarinet.
Bibilography
No Series
- Badlands of Hark (Hark)
- Beach House
- Beach Party
- Beware!
- Blind Date
- Blips: The First Book of Videogame Funnies
- Broken Date
- Call Waiting
- Curtains
- Dangerous Girls I
- Dangerous Girls II: The Taste of Night
- Don't Stand in the Soup
- Eye Candy
- Halloween Night
- Halloween Night 2
- Hit and Run
- Hitchhiker
- How I Broke Up With Ernie
- How to Be Funny
- I Saw You That Night!
- Invaders of Hark (Hark)
- Phone Calls
- Snowman
- Superstitious
- The Dead Girlfriend
- The Babysitter
- The Babysitter II
- The Babysitter III
- The Babysitter IV
- The Beast
- The Beast 2
- The Boyfriend
- The Girlfriend
- The Haunting Hour
- The Nightmare Hour
- The Sick of Being Sick Book
- The Sitter
- Twisted
Series
- Fear Street
- Ghosts of Fear Street
- Goosebumps
- Give Yourself Goosebumps
- Mostly Ghostly
- Rotten School
- The Nightmare Room
- Goosebumps: Series 2000
- Space Cadets
Footnotes
- ^ Rodrigues, Tracy. "R.L. Stine, author". Time for Kids. Retrieved 2007-01-09.
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