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About 159 pages (47,639 words) in 34 products |
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| Name: |
Paul Zindel | | Birth Date: |
May 15, 1936 | | Place of Birth: |
Staten Island, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
playwright, screenwriter, author |
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 Biography of Paul Zindel
6,929 words, approx. 23 pages
 May 15, 1936. Born in Staten Island, New York. Coming from a broken home, Zindel never knew his father very well. "Mother was a girl in her twenties when my father left. She used to have to fight to get the allowance from him and tried to keep us... summary from source:
Biography of Paul Zindel
5,097 words, approx. 17 pages
Considered a groundbreaking author of young adult literature as well as one of its most controversial contributors, Paul Zindel is well known as the creator of realistic novels that depict the teenage milieu with authenticity, humor, and panache. In... summary from source:
 Biography of Paul Zindel
4,070 words, approx. 14 pages
Critics of adolescent literature generally cite four novels of the late 1960s as helping this subgenre break its ties with its past formulaic romanticism and move dramatically into a much more realistic mode: The Outsiders (1967) by S. E. Hinton, The...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Paul Zindel Information
805 words, approx. 3 pages
 Paul Zindel (. May 15 1936, New York City – d. March 27 2003) was an American author, playwright and...
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 ALAN Review A Farewell to Paul Zindel
04/01/2003: 381 words, approx. 1 pages It was a Saturday noon in early March in 1995 in Lawrence, Kansas, when I said: "Let us give a warm welcome to Paul Zindel." At that moment everyone stood up and applauded for 30 or 45 seconds. The man went to the microphone... summary from source:
ALAN Review Tribute to Paul Zindel
04/01/2003: 675 words, approx. 2 pages Paul Zindel, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970) and over 30 books for adolescents, including the always-popular The Pigman (1968), Pardon Me, You're Stepping on my Eyeball! (1976) and Harry and Hortense at Hormone High...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jack Jacob Forman
3,305 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following excerpt, Forman comments on the auto-biographical elements and depiction of women in Zindel's plays, often comparing the characterizations in his dramas to those in his young adult novels.
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Critical Essay by Gerard Raymond
2,224 words, approx. 7 pages
In the following excerpt, Raymond examines Zindel's life and literary career and highlights the autobiographical details in Amulets against the Dragon Forces.
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The Theater Is Born within Us (1970)
2,087 words, approx. 7 pages
Here, in the course of arguing that drama is a form of expression inherent in humankind, Zindel recollects events in his own life that demonstrate an innate affinity for the theater.
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