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Paul Zindel Biography (1936-)

Born May 15, 1936, in Staten Island, NY; son of Paul (a police officer) and Betty (a practical nurse; maiden name, Frank) Zindel; married Bonnie Hildebrand (a chemistry teacher and writer), October 25, 1973; children: David Jack, Elizabeth Claire. Addresses: Contact--Harper and Row, Inc., 10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022-5244.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Birth Details

May 15, 1936

Staten Island, New York, United States

Famous Works

• Credits; Stage Work
• Director, Ladies at the Alamo, Actors Studio, New York City, 1975.
• Writings;Stage Plays
• Dimensions of Peacocks, New York City, 1959.
• Euthanasia and the Endless Hearts, Take 3, New York City, 1960.
• A Dream of Swallows, New York City, 1962.
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Alley Theatre, Houston, TX, 1964, then Mercer-O'Casey Theatre, New York City, 1970, published (with illustrations by Dong Kingman) by Harper (New York City), 1971; and MissReardon Drinks a Little, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 1967, then Morosco Theatre, New York City, 1971, published by Dramatists Play Service (New York City), 1971.
• The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, Ambassador Theatre, New York City, 1972, published by Dramatists Play Service, 1973.
• Ladies at the Alamo, Actors Studio, New York City, 1975, then Martin BeckTheatre, New York City, 1977, produced as Ladies on the Midnight Planet, Marilyn Monroe Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 1982, published by Dramatists Play Service, 1977.
• The Ladies Should Be in Bed, New York City, 1978, published with Let Me Hear You Whisper, Dramatists Play Service, 1973.
• Let Me Hear You Whisper, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, Harper, 1974.
• A Destiny on Half Moon Street, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami, FL, 1985,revised edition produced as Amulets against the Dragon Forces, Circle Repertory Company, New York City, 1989, published by Dramatists Play Service, 1990.
• Writings;Teleplays; Specials
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, National Educational Television (now PBS), 1966.
• Let Me Hear You Whisper, National Educational Television (now PBS), 1969,broadcast on American Playwrights Theatre: The One Acts, Arts and Entertainment, 1990, published with The Ladies Should Be in Bed, Dramatists Play Service, 1973, published separately, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, Harper, 1974.
• Writings;Teleplays; Movies
• Babes in Toyland (based on the operetta of the same name by Victor Herbert and Glen McDonough), NBC, 1986.
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (based on the novel of the same name by Samuel Langhorne Clemens [Mark Twain]), NBC, 1989.
• Writings;Teleplays; Miniseries
• Alice in Wonderland (based on the novel by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [Lewis Carroll]), CBS, 1985.
• Writings;Screenplays
• Up the Sandbox (based on the novel by Anne Roiphe), National General, 1972.
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973.
• Mame (based on the novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis), Warner Bros., 1974.
• (With Gerard Brach, Marjorie David, and Andrei Konchalovsky) Maria's Lovers, Cannon, 1985.
• (With Edward Bunker and Djordje Milicevic) Runaway Train (based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa), Cannon, 1985.
• Writings;Fiction for Young Readers, Unless Otherwise Noted
• The Pigman, Harper, 1968.
• My Darling, My Hamburger, Harper, 1969.
• I Never Loved Your Mind, Harper, 1970.
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Harper, 1971.
• I Love My Mother, illustrated by John Melo, Harper, 1975.
• Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!, Harper, 1976.
• The Confessions of a Teenage Baboon, Harper, 1977.
• The Undertaker's Gone Bananas, Harper, 1978.
• (With Bonnie Zindel) A Star for the Latecomer, Harper, 1980.
• The Pigman's Legacy, Harper, 1980.
• The Girl Who Wanted a Boy, Harper, 1981.
• (With Crescent Dragonwagon) To Take a Dare, Harper, 1982.
• Harry and Hortense at Hormone High, Harper, 1984.
• When Darkness Falls (adult novel), Bantam (New York City), 1984.
• The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman, Harper, 1987.
• A Begonia for Miss Applebaum, Harper, 1989.
• The Pigman and Me, HarperCollins (New York City), 1991.
• Attack of the Killer Fishsticks, Bantam, 1993.
• The Fifth-Grade Safari, illustrated by Jeff Mangiat, Bantam, 1993.
• Fright Party, illustrated by Jeff Mangiat, Bantam, 1993.
• David and Della, HarperCollins, 1993.
• The One Hundred Percent Laugh Riot, illustrated by Jeff Mangiat, Bantam,1994.
• The Loch, HarperCollins, 1994.
• The Doom Stone, HarperCollins, 1995.
• Reef of Death, HarperCollins, 1998.
• Raptor, Hyperion (New York City), 1998.
• Writings;Other Writings
• Contributor to periodicals.
• Other Works
• Adaptations: Zindel's works adapted for cassette tape and filmstrip include The Pigman, Miller-Brody/Random House, 1978, and My Darling, My Hamburger,Current Affairs and Mark Twain Media, 1978.

Further Reference

Books:

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volume 31, Gale (Detroit, MI),1991.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 26, 1983.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale, Volume 7: Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, 1981, pp. 368-373, Volume 52: American Writers for ChildrenSince 1960: Fiction, 1986, pp. 405-410.