Daniel Pinkwater

Daniel Manus Pinkwater (* November 15, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American radio host and author of fantastic children 's literature such as, for example, of Lizard Music about a boy who witnesses an invasion of intelligent lizards.

Life

Hailing from a paternal Jewish- Polish family Pinkwater studied after visiting the Lakeview High School in Chicago at Bard College in Annandale -on-Hudson Arts and graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts ( BFA ) from. Later was Pinkwater, the (New Jersey ) lives in Hoboken as a presenter at National Public Radio, a public, loosely organized consortium of radio stations in the USA.

The mid-1970s Pinkwater began with the writing of children and youth novels, some of which had fantastic themes and partly also appeared in German translation. Among his most famous publications include:

  • Lizard Music ( 1976)
  • Alan Mendelsohn, Boy From Mars (1979, German title Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars, 1983)
  • The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death ( 1982)
  • The Snarkout Boys and the Bacon Castle Horror ( 1984)
  • Brogel (1990, German title Brogel: a fantastic novel, 2000)
  • The Education of Robert Nifkin (1998)

External links and sources

  • Personal homepage
  • Literature by and about Daniel Pinkwater in the catalog that German national library
  • Daniel Pinkwater in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (United States)
  • Children 's and Youth Literature
  • Americans
  • Born in 1941
  • Man
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