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R.L Stine, sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor.

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R.L Stine, sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor.

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EARLY LIFE & CAREER

  • Robert Lawrence Stine was born on October 8, 1943.
  • He was born in Columbus, Ohio to Lewis Stine and Anne Feinstein.
  • Stine’s family was Jewish, and he grew up in Bexley, Ohio with a younger brother and sister named Bill and Pam.
  • Stine has said that his family was very poor, and he would often wear hand-me-downs, which made him feel shy at school.
  • Part of his interest in writing was a result of spending a lot of time in his room (due to shyness).
  • Stine was not very good at school and didn’t get the best grades, but he loved writing.
  • When Stine was nine years old, he found a typewriter in the attic of his family home, brought it downstairs to his room, and began typing short stories, comics, and joke books for his friends.
  • According to Stine, he didn’t work very hard at school, got mostly B’s on his report card, and was always making jokes in class.
  • He was bad at math, and didn’t really like gym (except playing ping-pong).
  • Stine attended Ohio State University to study English. While he was there, he was the editor of the OSU humor magazine called The Sundial for three years of his four-year degree program.
  • In 1965, he graduated from Ohio State University with his Bachelor of Arts in English, even though he admitted that he barely ever went to class.
  • In 1967, Stine moved to New York to write.
  • He began working for Scholastic writing school magazines, then joke books and humor books for kids.
  • He created the magazine Bananas (seen right), which was a humor magazine that he edited for ten years under the pen name “Jovial Bob Stine”.

GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET

  • Stine married Jane Waldhorn on June 22, 1969, and shortly after that, Jane became an editor and writer.
  • Jane created the publishing company, Parachute Press, which was the company that helped create Stine’s most popular book series.
  • His first horror novel, Blind Date, was published in 1986.
  • Other books that followed included Beach House, The Babysitter, and Hit and Run.
  • The first young adult horror series, Fear Street, began in 1989 and quickly became a top-selling young adult book series.
  • By 1992, Stine wrote the Goosebumps series, which quickly became popular Worldwide. It got turned into a TV show that ran for four seasons from 1995-1998.
  • Goosebumps was also turned into three video games called Escape from HorrorLand, Attack of the Mutant, and Goosebumps Horrorland.
  • The following is a short list of selected titles from the Fear Street and Goosebumps book series:
Fear Street Goosebumps
The New Girl The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
Ski Weekend Return of the Mummy
Lights Out Vampire Breath
The Knife The Ghost Next Door
The Knife The Ghost Next Door

FUN FACTS ABOUT R.L STINE

  • Stine co-created and wrote the Nickelodeon children’s T.V series Eureeka’s Castle during its 1989-1995 seasons.
  • Between the release of Fear Street and Goosebumps, Stine wrote three sci-fi books in the Space Cadets series called Jerks in Training, Bozos on Patrol, and Losers in Space, which had a humorous element to them.
  • Stine made the list of 40 best-paid Entertainers of 1996-1997, ranking 36th with an income of $41 million.
  • Stine’s books have sold over 400 million copies as of 2008, so you can just imagine how much higher that number has grown since then.
  • Stine and his wife Jane have one child together. His name is Matthew and he was born on June 7th, 1980.
  • Stine writes in his studio, where he keeps a mask, skeleton, and a huge fake cockroach to create an eerie atmosphere.
  • He thinks that if people want to become writers, they should read as many different authors as they can in order to learn different styles.
  • Stine was inspired by author Ray Bradbury when he was 9 or 10 years old.
  • Stine has been referred to as the “Stephen King of children’s literature”.

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  • True or False?
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  • Our Five Senses
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  • A Creepy Character
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