Robert lawrence stine biography of christopher

  • Chris, aged 18, posing as a harmless young boy with his favorite book.
  • Robert Lawrence Stine known as "RL Stine", was born October 8, in Columbus, Ohio.
  • American short-story writer, autobiographer, and author of juvenile fiction and young adult novels.

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    Who Is R. L. Stine?
    (Who Was?)

    M. D. Payne was born in in New Hampshire to an Air Force Family and grew up in 11 different homes in Maine, California, Idaho, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Germany. As a child, he was a ravenous reader. While in elementary school, his favorite past-time was creating cut-and-paste scrapbooks of presidential facts that remain in his mother's possession today. M. D. has been a fan of Halloween and horror into adulthood, so he jumped at the chance to write marketing and creative copy for the famed GOOSEBUMPS series in , and was soon pulled into the world of kidlit. He wrote his first books, the gross-out horror series MONSTER JUICE, from , and then became involved in the NY Times bestselling WHO WAS series, tackling spooky titles like Who Is R. L. Stine and What is the Story of Scooby Doo? Before M. D. was a writer, he was a Jazz DJ, wrote scripts for Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, and was associate producer on Essentially Ellington recordings and
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    Robert Lawrence Stine was born on October 8, in Columbus, Ohio. When he was nine he found an old typewriter in his attic and decided to write jokes for all of his friends. Thus began his writing career. When he went off to college at Ohio State University he continued to write humor and even edited the school's humor magazine, The Sundial. After graduating he moved to New York City. While there, Stine worked as a writer and editor. He eventually landed a position at Scholastic, Inc., working on children's magazines. He created a humor magazine for kids, Bananas, in the mids, and later launched Maniac magazine for the company. Outside of his day job, Stine wrote humorous books for kids under the name "Jovial Bob Stine."

    Why Did He Start Writing Horror?

    Stine always thought of himself as a very fearful child and credits his mother for giving him a good scare when he was young by reading him the original Pinocchio. "The original Pinocchio is

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    Stine, R. L.

    INTRODUCTION
    PRINCIPAL WORKS
    GENERAL COMMENTARY
    TITLE COMMENTARY
    FURTHER READING

    (Full name Robert Lawrence Stine; has also written beneath the pseudonyms Eric Affabee, Jovial Bob Stine, and Zachary Blue) American short-story writer, autobiographer, and author of juvenile fiction and young adult novels.

    The following entry presents an overview of Stine's career through For further information on his life and works, see CLR, Volume

    INTRODUCTION

    Having written several hundred books for ung audiences, Stine is one of the most prolific children's authors of the twentieth century. At the height of his popularity, during the mids, the sales for Stine's "Goosebumps" series of young adult novels included seven of the top fifty and fifteen of the top one hundred books on the New York Times best-sellers list. In he had ninety million books in print, with an estimated million children buying his books every month. By the end of , he was estimated to have sold over three