Paul Zindel

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Paul Zindel (born May 15, 1936 in New York City , † March 27, 2003 ibid) was an American writer , playwright and screenwriter .

Life

Paul Zindel and his sister grew up with their single mother. The father had left the family when Zindel was two years old. His mother moved with him frequently in search of work, so that he could make few friends as a teenager and became a loner. After graduating from college, he worked as a technical writer for Allied Chemical, after realizing that he wanted to do something for the youth, he became a high school teacher of physics and chemistry in New York, then he moved to Texas, where he played plays wrote for the Nina Vance's Alley Theater in Houston. After several successes as a playwright, including with The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (premiered in 1965), which won a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for "Best American Play" in 1970 and the 1971 Awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Zindel wrote his first novella for teenagers, the hugely successful book The Pigman . In 1972 he wrote the screenplay for the film Sandbox Games . In 2002, he received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association for great service in youth literature .

Paul Zindel died of lung cancer on March 27, 2003 .

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SURNAME Zindel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2003
Place of death New York City