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Paul Zindel, Jr. (May 15, – March 27, ) was an American playwright, young adult novelist, and educator.
Early life
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 ye
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I grew up on Staten Island with my mother and sister. When I was young, my father left the family, and I saw him about every other Christmas. My mother struggled to get money from him, and tried to keep us together, moving from apartment to apartment and coming up with "get-rich-quick" schemes. But because we moved around so much, each town offered a lush new backdrop for my imagination. By the time I was ten I had gone nowhere, but had seen the world. I dared to speak and act my true feelings only in fantasy and secret. That's probably what made me a writer.
In high school, I wrote my first play. Some of my classmates got the impression I had a strange sense of humor — macabre, I believe, was the term they used. A group of student government officers asked me to create a hilarious sketch for an assembly to help raise money. I decided that even if I could not succeed in the real worl
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Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel (ur. 15 maja w Nowym Jorku[1], zm. 27 marca tamże) – amerykański dramaturg, scenarzysta i powieściopisarz, autor opowiadań dla młodzieży, laureat Nagrody Pulitzera.
Zarówno on, jak i jego starsza siostra Betty, nosili imiona po rodzicach, Paulu i Betty Zindelach[1]. Kiedy przyszły pisarz miał dwa lata, ojciec opuścił rodzinę dla kochanki[1]. Matka z trudem utrzymywała dwójkę dzieci, imając się różnych zajęć[1]. Gdy Paul miał piętnaście lat, wykryto u niego gruźlicę[1]. Z powodu tej zakaźnej choroby został hospitalizowany. W czasie półtorarocznego pobytu na leczeniu napisał swoją pierwszą sztukę[1]. Po wyzdrowieniu ukończył szkołę średnią inom wyjechał na studia do Wagner College w Staten Island[1]. W uzyskał bakalaureat z chemii i pedagogiki[1]. W połowie lat sześćdziesiątych napisał sztukę The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds[1], która w przyniosła mu Nagrodę Pulitzera w dziedzinie dramatu[2][3].