The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds as a film resonated strongly with me, so I figured I should read the play and perhaps even compare the literary work and the movie.īut after reading the play, I realized just how well Paul Newman had captured Tillie's situation and transferred it to the screen. I picked up Zindel's play after watching the movie adaptation. The Pigman, first published in 1968, is widely taught in American schools, and also made it on to the list of most frequently banned books in America in the 1990s, because of what some deem offensive language. Many of his novels have wacky titles, such as My Darling, My Hamburger, or Confessions of A Teenage Baboon. Despite the often dark subject matter of his books, which deal with loneliness, loss, and the effects of abuse, they are also filled with humor. They tended to be semi-autobiographical, focusing on teenage misfits with abusive or neglectful parents. Many of these were set in his home town of Staten Island, New York. Zindel wrote 39 books, all of them aimed at children or young adults.
Charlotte Zolotow, then a vice-president at Harper & Row (now Harper-Collins) contacted him to writing for her book label. It was also made into a 1972 movie by 20th Century Fox. It won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play ran off-Broadway in 1970, and on Broadway in 1971. In 1964, he wrote The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, his first and most successful play. Paul Zindel was an American author, playwright and educator.
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