Jan 2, 2010

The Pigman | About the Author

Paul Zindel was born on May 15, 1936, in Staten Island, New York. When Zindel was very young, his father abandoned him, his mother, and his sister, reducing his family to poverty. Frequent moves throughout the ethnic neighborhoods of Staten Island made Zindel and his family perpetual outsiders. Furthering the anguish caused by these dislocations, Zindel was diagnosed for tuberculosis at age fifteen and spent a year and a half in a sanatorium called Stony Wold. Despite these setbacks, Zindel managed to graduated from Port Richmond High School only one year late, and he went on to Wagner...