R. L. Stine

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R. L. Stine

Born:	October 8, 1943 Columbus, Ohio
Occupation(s):	Writer
Nationality:	American
Genre(s):	Horror

Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is a novelist and writer for children. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. He is often called the Stephen King of children's literature. He was also involved in the creation of the PBS Kids children's show Eureeka's Castle.

[edit] History

R. L. Stine was born on October 8, 1943 in Columbus, Ohio to a homemaker and a shipping clerk. He was the oldest of three children. One day Stine found an old typewriter and began to type stories and joke books and has been writing ever since then. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965 and moved to New York City to become a writer. He wrote dozens of joke books for kids, under the pen name Jovial Bob Stine, and created the humor magazine Bananas, where he worked for ten years. In 1969, he married Jane Waldhorn, who became an editor and writer and eventually formed Parachute Press with a business partner. In 1980, the couple gave birth to their only child, a boy named Matthew. In 1986, Stine wrote his first teen horror novel, Blind Date. He soon followed with novels Beach House, Hit and Run, and The Girlfriend. In 1989, he created Fear Street. In 1992, he created Goosebumps. Currently, he is working on three different book series, Mostly Ghostly, The Rotten School and Fear Street. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jane, his son, Matt, and his dog, Nadine.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] No Series

• Badlands of Hark (Hark)
• Beach House
• Beach Party
• Beware!
• Blind Date
• Blips: The First Book of Videogame Funnies
• Broken Date
• Call Waiting
• Curtains
• Dangerous Girls I
• Dangerous Girls II: The Taste of Night
• Eye Candy
• Halloween Night
• Halloween Night 2
• Hit and Run
• Hitchhiker
• How I Broke Up With Ernie
• How to Be Funny
• Invaders of Hark (Hark)
• Phone Calls
• Snowman
• Spaceballs: The Book
• Superstitious
• The Dead Girlfriend
• The Babysitter
• The Babysitter II
• The Babysitter III
• The Babysitter IV
• The Boyfriend
• The Girlfriend
• The Haunting Hour
• The Nightmare Hour
• The Sick of Being Sick Book
• The Sitter
• Twisted

[edit] Series

• Fear Street
• Ghosts of Fear Street
• Goosebumps
• Give Yourself Goosebumps
• Mostly Ghostly
• Rotten School
• The Nightmare Room
• Goosebumps: Series 2000

[edit] Awards and Honors

• Over 300 million books sold
• Books translated into twenty-eight languages
• Guinness Book of World Records #1 best-selling children’s book series author, 2003
• Number 1 best-selling author in America by USA Today three years in a row
• Recipient of the first-ever Champion of Reading Award from the Free Public Library of Philadelphia, 2002
• Three-time winner of the Disney Adventures Kids’ Choice Award for Best Book-Mystery/Horror
• Three-time winner of the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Award

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• R. L. Stine at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bibliography at Internet Book List