Biography about the author r l stine
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"Why do I write these creepy books?" R.L. Stine asks. "I just like to scare people!"
He's been scaring people all around the world for a lot of years. So far, he has sold over 400-million books and his books have been translated into 35 languages, making him one of the best-selling authors in history.
Robert Lawrence Stine was born on October 8, 1943 in Columbus, Ohio. His mother was a home-maker. His father was a shipping clerk in a warehouse. Bob has a younger brother and sister, Bill and Pam. "We were very poor," Bob says. "I had to wear my cousin's old clothes to school. I think it made me very shy. It's one reason I liked staying in my room and writing."
When Bob was nine, he found an old typewriter up in the attic. That discovery changed his life. He carried it down to his room and started typing stories and little joke books.
His mother begged him to go outside and play. But Bob always said it was too boring outside. He stayed in his room typ
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R. L. Stine
American writer and producer (born 1943)
Not to be confused with Aurel Stein.
Robert Lawrence Stine (; born October 8, 1943) is an American novelist. He is the writer of Goosebumps, a horror fiction novel series which has sold over 400 million copies globally in 35 languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history.[1] The series spawned a media franchise including two televisionseries, a video game series, a comic series, and two feature films. Stine has been referred to as the "Stephen King of children's literature".[2]
Stine wrote the teenage horror fiction series Fear Street, which has sold over 80 million copies and has been adapted into a trilogy of films.[3] His other horror fiction novel series include Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly,Nightmare Hour, and The Nightmare Room. He has also written dozens of humor books for children, under the alias Jovial Bob Stine.
Early life
Stine was born on Oct
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Of all the fan mail R. L. Stine has gotten, there are two that stick out in his mind the most. The first was a girl who wrote, "Dear R. L. Stine, I loved The Babysitter. The same thing happened to me�. Keep up the good work." The second is his 'all-time favorite': "Dear R. L. Stine, I've read 40 of your books and I think they're really boring."
Despite some criticism, Stine remains the all-time best-selling children's author, even ahead of J. K. Rowling. "At one point," he says, "I was doing a Fear Street and a Goosebumps every month, so I did it bygd doing twenty-four books a year; J. K. Rowling does one a year. She's smart, she has a life." In amerika alone, the eighty titles of the Goosebumps series have sold 220 million copies; abroad, they have been translated into sixteen languages for publication in thirty-one countries.
Though none of his plots happened in real life, Stine admits to using feelings in his books. "I was a very fearful child�. inom remember that feeling of pa