Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is a novelist and writer for teens. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. He is often called the Stephen King for kids.

History

R. L. Stine was born on October 8, 1943 in Columbus, Ohio to a homemaker and a shipping clerk. He was the oldest of three children. One day Stine found an old typewriter and began to type stories and joke books and has been writing ever since then. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965 and moved to New York City to become a writer. He wrote dozens of joke books for kids, under the pen name Jovial Bob Stine, and created the humor magazine Bananas, where he worked for ten years. In 1969, he married Jane Waldhorn, who became an editor and writer and eventually formed Parachute Press with a business partner. In 1980, the couple gave birth to their only child, a boy named Matthew. In 1986, Stine wrote his first teen horror novel, Blind Date. He soon followed with novels Beach House, Hit and Run, and The Girlfriend. In 1989, he created Fear Street. In 1992, he created Goosebumps. Currently, he is working on three different book series, Mostly Ghostly, The Rotten School, Fear Street, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Nightmare Room, and Goosebumps Series 2000. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jane, and his son, Matt.

Bibliography

No Series

• Beach House
• Beach Party
• Beware!
• Blind Date
• Broken Date
• Call Waiting
• Curtains
• Dangerous Girls I
• Dangerous Girls II: The Taste of Night
• Eye Candy
• Halloween Night
• Halloween Night 2
• Hit and Run
• Hitchhiker
• How I Broke Up With Ernie
• How to Be Funny
• Phone Calls
• Snowman
• Superstitious
• The Dead Girlfriend
• The Babysitter
• The Babysitter II
• The Babysitter III
• The Babysitter IV
• The Badlands of Hark (Choose your own adventure)
• The Boyfriend
• The Girlfriend
• The Haunting Hour
• The Nightmare Hour
• The Sitter
• Twisted

Series

• Fear Street
• Ghosts of Fear Street
• Goosebumps
• Give Yourself Goosebumps
• Mostly Ghostly
• Rotten School
• The Nightmare Room

Awards and Honors

• Over 300 million books sold
• Books translated into twenty-eight languages
• Guinness Book of World Records #1 best-selling children’s book series author, 2003
• Number 1 best-selling author in America by USA Today three years in a row
• Recipient of the first-ever Champion of Reading Award from the Free Public Library of Philadelphia, 2002
• Three-time winner of the Disney Adventures Kids’ Choice Award for Best Book-Mystery/Horror
• Three-time winner of the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Award

External links

• Official Site

1943 births | Living people | American novelists | American children's writers | Jewish American writers | Horror writers | Ohio State University alumni

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