Author paul zindel biography sample

My Biography
by Paul Zindel
(for Scholastic)

I grew up on Staten Island with my mother and sister.

Author paul zindel biography sample pdf

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.

Author paul zindel biography sample

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