| 词条 | Paul Zindel |
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| name = Paul Zindel | image = PaulZindel.gif | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1936|05|15}} | birth_place = Tottenville, Staten Island, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2003|03|27|1936|05|15}} | death_place = New York City, New York, United States | occupation = Writer | nationality = American | genre = Drama, novels, screenplays | notableworks = The Pigman | spouse = {{marriage|Bonnie Hildebrand|1973|1998|reason=divorce}} | awards = {{awd |Pulitzer Prize for Drama |1971}} {{awd |Margaret Edwards Award |2002}} }} Paul Zindel, Jr. (May 15, 1936 – March 27, 2003) was an American playwright, young adult novelist, and educator. Early life{{unreferenced section|date=June 2018}}Zindel was born in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York to Paul Zindel, Sr., a policeman, and Betty Zindel, a nurse; his sister, Betty (Zindel) Hagen, was a year and a half older than him. Paul Zindel, Sr. ran away with his mistress when Zindel was two, leaving the trio to move around Staten Island, living in various houses and apartments. Zindel wrote his first play in high school. Throughout his teen years he wrote plays, though he trained as a chemist at Wagner College and spent six months working at Allied Chemical as a chemical writer after graduating. Zindel took a creative writing course with the playwright Edward Albee while he was an undergraduate. Albee became his mentor and was an advocate for Zindel. He later quit and worked as a high school Chemistry and Physics teacher at Tottenville High School on Staten Island for ten years. CareerIn 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, and he received the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. However, this play also received criticism for being too elliptical or too difficult to understand. Still, it was also made into a 1972 movie by 20th Century Fox, directed by Paul Newman and starring his wife Joanne Woodward. Soon thereafter, Charlotte Zolotow, a vice-president at Harper & Row, contacted him about writing for her book label. Zindel wrote a total of 53 books, all but one of them aimed at children or teens. Many were set in his home town of Staten Island. They tended to be semi-autobiographical, focusing on teenage misfits with abusive or neglectful parents. Zindel himself grew up in a single-parent household; his mother worked at various occupations: hat check girl, shipyard worker, dog breeder, hot dog vendor, and finally licensed practical nurse, often boarding terminally ill patients at home.[1] They moved frequently, and his mother often engaged in "get-rich-quick" schemes that did not succeed. His father abandoned them.[2] This upbringing was most closely depicted in Confessions of a Teenage Baboon. Despite the often dark subject matter of his books, which deal with loneliness, loss, and the effects of abuse, they are also filled with humor. Many of his novels have zany titles, such as My Darling, My Hamburger, Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball! or Confessions of a Teenage Baboon. "My Darling, My Hamburger" specifically deals with teen sexuality, abuse with the home, teen pregnancy, and abortion. The Pigman, first published in 1968, deals with love and finding friends in odd places. It is widely taught in American schools and made it on to the list of most frequently banned books in America in the 1990s; for example, Plano, Texas parents complained of offensive language and sexual themes.[3] Zindel stated that "I ignore critics usually. I believe the perfect story is a dream." Zindel received the annual Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2002, recognizing his cumulative "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". The jury cited five works said to be published 1968 to 1993: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; My Darling, My Hamburger; and the Pigman trilogy (‡). The citation called The Pigman "one of the first authentic young adult novels" and the panel chair observed that "Paul Zindel knows and understands the reality young adults deal with day-to-day ... He has the ability to depict young adults in an honest and realistic way. The characters he developed nearly 40 years ago still speak to today's teens." Beginning with Loch in 1994, Zindel wrote numerous speculative fiction novels for children or young adults, mainly in the horror genre. Zindel also worked in Hollywood, writing the screenplays for, among other titles, Up the Sandbox and Mame. Personal life and deathZindel was married to Bonnie Hildebrand from 1973, divorcing her in 1998. They had two children; novelist Lizabeth Zindel, and son David, a publisher. Paul Zindel died in New York City from lung cancer in 2003, at the Jacob Perlow Hospice in Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. He is buried in Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island. WorksPlays
NovelsThe Zone Unknown
P.C. Hawke Mysteries
The Wacky Facts Lunch Bunch
The Pigman Trilogy
Other Novels
(‡) The Young Adult Library Services Association cited five books when Zindel won the 2002 Edwards Award. Short Stories
Screenplays
See also{{Portal bar |Children's literature |Horror |Theater }}References1. ^Pamphlet for {{cite video |people= Lyons, Christine |date= 1979 |title= Paul Zindel: Marigolds & Hamburgers, Eyeballs & Baboons |medium= filmstrip |publisher= The Perfection Form Company |location= Logan, Iowa }} 2. ^{{cite journal| author=Zindel, Paul | title=Journey To Meet the Pigman | url=http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall94/Zindel.html | journal=The ALAN Review | date=Fall 1994 | accessdate=December 19, 2008|doi=10.21061/alan.v22i1.a.1 }} 3. ^{{cite web | title=The Pigman | url=http://solonor.com/bannedbooks/archives/001764.html | work=Banned Books Project |publisher=Solonor's Inkwell (solonor.com) | date=September 21, 2003 | accessdate=December 19, 2008}} Database entry evidently for a complaint by Plano Parents Rights Council (no date). 4. ^Amulets Against the Dragon Forces {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120104006/http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=1744 |date=November 20, 2015 }} lortel.org, accessed November 20, 2015 External links{{Wikiquote}}
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