Paul Zindel

Paul Zindel (May 15, 1936–March 27, 2003) was an American author and playwright. Throughout his teen years he wrote plays, though he trained as a chemist at Wagner College and spent six months working at Allied Chemical after graduating. He later quit and worked as a high school science teacher. In 1965, he wrote The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, his first play that went into production. The play ran off-Broadway in 1970, and on Broadway in 1971. It won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for drama. It was also made into a 1972 movie by 20th Century Fox.

List of Works

Plays

• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. 1965.
• And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little. 1967.
• The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild. 1972.
• Every 17 Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy.
• Ladies At The Alamo, 1977
• Amulets Against the Dragon Forces. 1998.

Novels

• The Pigman. New York: Harper, 1968.
• My Darling, My Hamburger. New York: Harper, 1969.
• I Never Loved Your Mind. New York: Harper, 1970.
• I Love My Mother. (juvenile) New York: Harper, 1975.
• Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball! New York: Harper, 1976.
• Confessions of a Teenage Baboon. New York: Harper, 1977.
• The Undertaker's Gone Bananas. New York: Harper, 1978.
• (With wife, Bonnie Zindel) A Star for the Latecomer. New York: Harper, 1980.
• The Pigman's Legacy. New York: Harper, 1980.
• The Girl Who Wanted a Boy. New York: Harper, 1981.
• (With Crescent Dragonwagon) To Take a Dare. New York: Harper, 1982.
• Harry and Hortense at Hormone High. New York: Harper, 1985.
• The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman. New York: Harper, 1987.
• A Begonia for Miss Applebaum. New York: Harper, 1989.
• The Pigman and Me. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
• Attack of the Killer Fishsticks. (juvenile) New York: Bantam, 1993.
• Fifth Grade Safari. New York: Bantam, 1993.
• Fright Party. (juvenile) New York: Bantam, 1993.
• David & Della. (juvenile) New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
• One Hundred Percent Laugh Riot. (juvenile) New York: Bantam, 1994.
• Loch. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
• The Doom Stone. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
• Raptor. New York: Hyperion, 1998.
• Reef of Death. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
• Rats. New York: Hyperion, 1999.
• The Gadget. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
• Night of the Bat. New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Scream Museum. New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Surfing Corpse. New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The E-Mail Murders. New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Lethal Gorilla. New York: Hyperion, 2001.
• The Square Root of Murder. 2002.
• Death on the Amazon. 2002.
• The Gourmet Zombie. 2002.
• The Phantom of 86th Street. 2002.
• The Houdini Whodunit. 2002.
• Death by CD. 2003.
• The Petrified Parrot. 2003.
• Camp Megadeath. 2003.