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** __Paul Zindel__ **

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 * __Intresting Facts about Paul Zindel__**
 * 1) Zindel taught science for a number of years but eventually gave it up. He said, “I felt I could do more for teenagers by writing for them.” He wanted to show teenagers they had a voice through his fiction.
 * 2) Zindel was greatly influenced by playwright Edward Albee, who wrote //Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?// Zindel once took a ten-day seminar with Albee and tried to model his career after him.
 * 3) Zindel wrote the screenplay for the flop film version of //Mame//, which starred Lucille Ball.
 * 4) Zindel’s children followed in his footsteps. His daughter Lizabeth is a playwright and actress, and his son David is a filmmaker.
 * 5) The characters of John and Lorraine in //The Pigman// were inspired by real-life teenagers whom Zindel knew.



**__Personal Quotes__**

"Our home was a house of fear. Mother never trusted anybody, and ours wasn't the kind of house someone could get into by knocking on the front door. A knock at the door would send mother, sister and me running to a window to peek out."

“I dared to speak and act my true feelings only in fantasy and secret”

__**List of Works by Paul Zindel**__

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__**Accomplishments and Awards**__


 * 1) Margaret Alexander Edwards Award, 2002
 * 2) Ford Foundation grant, 1967, for drama.
 * 3) //The Pigman// was selected one of Child Study Association of America's Children's Books of the Year, 1968, and received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Text, 1969.
 * 4) Outstanding Children's Book of the Year citations from New York Times, 1969, for //My Darling, My Hamburger//, 1970, for //I Never Loved Your Mind//, 1976, for //Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!//, 1978, for //The Undertaker's Gone Bananas//, and 1980, for //The Pigman's Legacy//
 * 5) Pulitzer Prize in Drama and New York Critics Award, both 1971, all for //The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds//
 * 6) American Library Association's Best Young Adult Books citations, 1971, for //The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds//, 1975, for //Pigman//, 1976, for //Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!//, 1977, for //Confessions of a Teenage Baboon//, 1980, for //The Pigman's Legacy//, and 1982, for //To Take a Dare//