amazing author presentations: r.l stine
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By Ms. Dedam
All About R.L Stine
Who is R.L Stine?
He is a children’s author and producer.
He was born October 8, 1943 in Columbus, Ohio.
His parents are Annie and Lewis Stine.
He has two younger siblings, Bill and Pam.
His family call him Bob, not R.L.
http://rlstine.com/about/
R.L. Stine the Family Man He married Jane Waldhorn in June 22, 1969.
He lives in New York with Jane and his dog Minnie.
He has a son who was born June 7, 1980. Matthew is a composer, musician, and sound designer.
http://rlstine.com/
Education
He never studied hard. However, he was a B student.
He considered himself horrible in Math and Gym.
He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965 with a Bachelors of Art in English degree.
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RL Stine the Writer
In his time, he has sold over 400 million books.
Which makes him the best-selling children's authors in history.
This all started writing when he was nine!
After he graduated, he went to New York to become a writer.
He started writing jokes book, humor books for teens.
He created Bananas, a crazy humor magazine. (1975 and 1984)
At first, he wrote under the name Jovial Bob Stine.
In 1986, R.L. turned scary!
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He wrote his first teen horror novel, Blind Date, which became an instant best-seller!
Several scary novels came after, including Beach House, Hit And Run, The Babysitter, and The Girlfriend.
See more at: http://rlstine.com/about/#sthash.mbCQPyPQ.dpuf
His Work!
R.L Stine wrote hundreds of books!
Blind Date (1986)Fear Street series (1989)Goosebumps series (1992)The Nightmare Room series(1999)Mostly Ghostly series (2004)Rotten School series(2005)… And many more!
Awards
Champion of Reading Award Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards Disney Adventures Kids’ Choice
Awards Thriller Writers of America Silver
Bullet Award (2007) Horror Writers Association’s
lifetime achievement award (2014)
He was even named the author of the best – selling children’s book series of all time.
Stine had been named America’s best – selling author by USA Today in the 1990’s – three years in a row.
http://www.famousauthors.org/r-l-stine
http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.ca/search?q=R+L+Stine
5 Facts you should know!
R.L stands for Robert Lawrence He has many alias names: Bob
Stine, R.L. Stine, Robert Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine
His series, Goosebumps was translated into 32 different languages.
He never received any of his ideas from dreams, he says that his dreams are boring.
He writes an average of 2 books per month.
Advice for you!
What advice do you have for kids who want to be writers? Read, read, read. Read as much as you can by as many different authors as you can. That way, without even realizing it, you build a good vocabulary--and you pick up different ways of saying things, of describing the world and the people in it. Nothing is as important for someone who wants to be a writer as reading books by MANY DIFFERENT authors.
So keep reading--and have a scary day!
--R.L. Stine
Reference:
http://rlstine.com/
R.L. Stine. (2015). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 08:18, Jan 24, 2015, from http://www.biography.com/people/rl-stine-20945371.
http://www.scholastic.ca/goosebumps/books/stine/ideas.htm
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/5866-rl-stine-biography
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/author/stine-r-l/
Thank you!