Paul Zindel (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Paul Zindel once considered himself primarily a playwright, and in 1990 said, “basically, I’m a dramatist”; he enjoyed great success as a writer of novels for teenagers, however, and it is in this capacity that he is best known. His first such work, The Pigman (1968), sold in the millions, and sequels such as The Pigman’s Legacy (1980) followed. A 1989 book, A Begonia for Miss Applebaum, was critically well received, and the autobiographical The Pigman and Me was published in 1992. Zindel’s teen characters confront the...
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