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Profile of Daniel M. Pinkwater
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Daniel M. Pinkwater |
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15th November 1941 |
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Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Daniel Pinkwater (b. November 15th, 1941) is an author (mostly of children's books) and occasional commentator on National Public Radio. Well-known books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot.
Pinkwater tends to write books about (frequently obese) social misfits who find themselves in bizarre situations, such as searching for a floating island populated by human-sized intelligent lizards (Lizard Music), exploring other universes with an obscure relative (Borgel), and discovering that their teeth can function as interstellar radio antennae (Fat Men from Space).
They are often, though not always, set in thinly disguised versions of Chicago or in New Jersey. A recurring character in many of his books set in Chicago is the Chicken Man, an elderly man who carries a performing chicken on his head.
He often varies his name slightly between books (among, e.g., "Daniel Pinkwater", "Daniel M. Pinkwater", "Daniel Manus Pinkwater", "D. Manus Pinkwater", etc.); allegedly, he claims that he does this in order to annoy the librarians who have to catalogue his books.
Partial Bibliography
Children's books
- Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars (1979)
- Blue Moose (1975)
- The Muffin Fiend
- Fat Men from Space
- The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
- Borgel
- The Last Guru
- The Magic Moscow
- The Magic Pretzel
- Slaves of Speigel
- Lizard Music
- Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story
- The Snarkout Boys books:
- The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
- The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror
- The Worms of Kukumlima
- Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario
Young adult novels
- The Education of Robert Nifkin
- Young Adults
Picture books
- The Big Orange Splot
- Doodle Flute
- Guys From Space
Adult fiction
Non-fiction
- Hoboken Fish and Chicago Whistle: a book of essays, combining essays from two previous books:
- Chicago Days, Hoboken Nights
- Fish Whistle
- Superpuppy: on raising a dog
- Uncle Boris in the Yukon: and Other Shaggy Dog Stories
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