William Sleator

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William Warner Sleator III (born February 13, 1945 in Havre de Grace , Harford County , Maryland , † August 3, 2011 in Buachet , Thailand ) was an American science fiction writer who wrote especially books for young people and adolescents.

Life

Sleator graduated from Harvard University with degrees in Music and English .

His stories deal with the problems and worries of this age group, the emotional and psychological aspects. Family relationships, especially between siblings , appear again and again in his works. In his best-known work, The House of Stairs , five orphans are used, without their knowledge and consent, in an experiment to test the limits of their willpower and adaptation until the situation almost gets out of hand.

Works

  • The Angry Moon (1970)
  • The haunted house . Walter Verlag, Olten and Freiburg im Breisgau 1974, ISBN 3-530-82451-8 (American English: Blackbriar . 1972.).
  • Three anxious days . Walter Verlag, Olten and Freiburg im Breisgau 1975, ISBN 3-530-82452-6 (American English: Run . 1973.).
  • The house of stairs . Walter Verlag, Olten and Freiburg im Breisgau 1976, ISBN 3-530-82453-4 (American English: The House of Stairs . 1974.).
  • Among the Dolls (1975)
  • Take Charge: A Personal Guide to Behavior Modification (1976)
  • Into the Dream (1979)
  • Once, Said Darlene (1979)
  • The Green Futures of Tycho (1981 *)
  • That's Silly (1981)
  • Fingers (1983)
  • Interstellar Pig (1984)
  • Singularity (1985)
  • The Boy Who Reversed Himself (1986)
  • The Duplicate (1988)
  • Strange Attractors (1989)
  • Under the spell of demons . Dtv, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-423-70494-6 (American English: The Spirit House . 1991.).
  • Others See Us (1993)
  • Oddballs (1993) (collection)
  • Dangerous desires . Dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-423-70466-3 (American English: Dangerous Wishes . 1995.).
  • The Night the Heads Came (1996)
  • The Beasties (1997)
  • The Boxes (1998)
  • Rewind (1999)
  • Boltzmon! (1999)
  • Marco's Millions (2001)
  • Parasite Pig (2002)
  • The Boy Who Couldn't Die (2004)
  • The Last Universe (2005)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/william-sleator-science-fiction-writer-for-young-adults-dies-at-66.html
personal data
SURNAME Sleator, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sleator, William Warner III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Havre de Grace , Harford County , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2011
Place of death Buachet , Thailand