Biographical Bibliography

      Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 2, Detroit:  Gale, 1989.

Other Media

PLAYS

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (first produced in Houston, TX, at Alley Theatre, May, 1964; produced Off-Broadway at Mercer-O'Casey Theatre, April 7, 1970), illustrated by Dong Kingman, Harper, 1971.

SCREEN AND TELEVISION PLAYS

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds National Educational Television (NET), October 3, 1966.

Mame (based on Patrick Dennis's novel Auntie Mame), Warner Bros., 1974.

Alice in Wonderland, CBS-TV, December 9, 1985.

(With Leslie Bricusse) Babes in Toyland, NBC-TV, 1986.

Media Adaptations: Zindel's works adapted for cassette and filmstrip include The Pigman, Miller-Brody/Random House, 1978, and My Darling, My Hamburger, Current Affairs and Mark Twain Media, 1978.

Selected Awards and Honors

Margaret Alexander Edwards Award, 2002

Ford Foundation grant, 1967, for drama.

The Pigman was selected one of Child Study Association of America's Children's Books of the Year, 1968, and received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Text, 1969.

Outstanding Children's Book of the Year citations from New York Times, 1969, for My Darling, My Hamburger, 1970, for I Never Loved Your Mind, 1976, for Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!, 1978, for The Undertaker's Gone Bananas, and 1980, for The Pigman's Legacy

Pulitzer Prize in Drama and New York Critics Award, both 1971, all for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

American Library Association's Best Young Adult Books citations, 1971, for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, 1975, for Pigman, 1976, for Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!, 1977, for Confessions of a Teenage Baboon, 1980, for The Pigman's Legacy, and 1982, for To Take a Dare