Paul Zindel
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Journey To Meet The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
Fall Volume 22, Number 1
It's been twenty-five years since The Pigman was published, and I'm thrilled to have the chance to tell you about a mystery connected with the book. I suspect the mystery has as much to do with a search for the seeds of my own boyhood as it does with an investigation into the true identity of the Pigman.
"Journey" is a wonderful word in storytelling. For many writers, their journeys are voyages into memory, a phenomenon once described as "the diary we all carry about with us." About twenty years ago, I stood before you and told you about an old man I had met who, I thought, was the Pigman. I had put an ad in the Staten Island Advance, something any of you could do today if you were looking for a free place to live: "Respectable school teacher willing to mind your home while you're away."
I received replies and offers from other teachers and folks going on extended vacations or study grants, but one offer was wackier than the others -- and I took that one. A real estate consortium offered me an empty castle in which to live on Grymes Hill --
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Paul Zindel was an American writer born on May 15, in Staten Island, New York. As a teenager, he was an avid writer and clearly had a passion for the arts. However, after graduating high school, he attended Wagner College to study chemistry. It was only when he took a creative writing course with renowned playwright Edward Albee that he reignited his love for literature. In his post-college years, Zindel supported himself by teaching physics and chemistry at the high school level. On the side, he continued to write stories and plays. His first produced play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, was written in and earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
In , Zindel published his young-adult novel, The Pigman, which tells the story of high school sophomores Lorraine and John, who befriend an elderly neighbor named Mr. Pignati. Lorraine and John suffer from neglectful parenting, so they find a
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Paul Zindel's first novel, The Pigman, published in New York in by Harper & Row, is a story of two dispossessed young people who find a surrogate parent in Angelo Pignati, an Italian man who has never had children and whose wife is dead. He shares his humor and joy in life with them, and in his presence, they are allowed to be carefree and childlike in a way that they can't be with their own families.
The novel is considered by many critics to be the "first truly [young adult] book," according to Teri Lesesne in an interview with Zindel in Teacher Librarian. When Zindel wrote the book, he realized that few books depicted teenagers dealing with real problems in the modern world. He also talked to many teenagers who said they hated to read or had been branded as troublemakers, and he targeted his story to them. Zindel's honesty and humor "broke new ground, and prepared the soil" for many excellent young adult books to come, according to Lesesne.
In an interview with Scholastic students, Zindel said that
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Mr. Zindel had been a high school chemistry teacher for six years, demonstrating basic chemical reactions and explaining concepts like atomic numbers and covalent bonds, when ''The Effect of Gamma Rays'' opened in Houston. As with other plays that were staged before he quit teaching in , he had written it in his spare time and seemed to relish his outsider status -- he never went to the theater, he said, until he was already a published playwright
Remembering Paul Zindel
by Don Gallo
We've lost a giant in the field of books for teens. An in credibly talented person. A nutty, fun-loving, kid-loving guy. A brilliant thinker.
The New York Times obituary focused on his Pulitzer Prizewinning play, The Effect of Man-in-the Moon Marigolds, which was, of course, no small contribution to theater. But they minimized what we in the world of Young Adult Literature know so well
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