Lizabeth zindel biography channels

Lizabeth Zindel grew up in a literary family that included father Paul Zindel, a former high school chemistry teacher who became a Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright and young adult author.

Lizabeth was not even born when her father's first play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, opened off-Broadway in 1970.

Lizabeth zindel biography channels

Shortly thereafter he was launched, with the help of Charlotte Zolotow, on a career of writing for young adults. He also began a family, marrying the novelist Bonnie Hildebrand in 1973. For his daughter, now 30 years old, writing came naturally, she says.

On her Web site there is a picture of her penning her own work at age five.

Zindel grew up in New York City, attending the Dalton School. Ultimately, she majored in English and theater at Wesleyan. Now she has published her first novel: Girl of the Moment (Viking), about Lily, who is hired as an intern for a talente