The Guardian: Rl Stine’s Pumpkinhead review – horror from Goosebumps writer has kid confined inside large fruit
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R. L. Stine
Robert Lawrence Stine is an American novelist. He is the writer of Goosebumps, a horror fiction novel series for children which has sold over 400 million copies globally in 35 languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history. The series spawned a media franchise including two television series, a video game series, a comic series, and two feature films. Stine has been referred to…
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culture · American writer and producer (born 1943) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · editor-in-chief · children's writer · science fiction writer · actor · author · teacher · young adult author · also R. L. Stine, Robert Lawrence Stine, Jovial Bob Stine, Eric Affabee, R.L. Stine, Robert L. Stine
Born 8 October 1943 · Q333123
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 2 entries
WBUR: R.L. Stine, the giver of 'Goosebumps,' on 30 years, countless nightmares, and a lot of luck
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Yahoo: 'Goosebumps' Author R.L. Stine on How His Own Childhood Inspired the Series, Almost Never Wrote the Books
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2019· 1 entry
Stine appeared on an episode of the children's TV series Arthur
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes” in Nature Genetics — cited 1,538 times.
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Inkpot Award (2017).
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Stine was awarded the Inkpot Award
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2016· 1 entry
Published “From Krebs to clinic: glutamine metabolism to cancer therapy” in Nature Reviews Cancer — cited 1,683 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “MYC, Metabolism, and Cancer” in Cancer Discovery — cited 1,179 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Stine brought the Fear Street books back with his novel Party Games (ISBN 978-1250066220)
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (2013).
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Stine won the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Published “Differential abundance analysis for microbial marker-gene surveys” in Nature Methods — cited 2,206 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Stine famously types all of his books using only his left index finger, causing the finger to become curved over the years; he jokingly called it "hideous and totally bent" in 2008.
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2007· 3 entries
And was successful enough to spawn a spin-off, anthology, TV series R
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And a TV series that aired from 2010 to 2014)
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And the Horror Writers Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014
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2002· 1 entry
Published “Oligomeric and Fibrillar Species of Amyloid-β Peptides Differentially Affect Neuronal Viability” in Journal of Biological Chemistry — cited 1,245 times.
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1995· 2 entries
Stine's first novel targeted at adults, called Superstitious, was published
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Stine was listed on People Weekly's "Most Intriguing People" annual list, and in 2003, the Guinness Book of World Records named Stine as the best-selling children's book series author of all time
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1992· 2 entries
Stine and Parachute Press went on to launch Goosebumps
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Published “Bootstrapping Goodness-of-Fit Measures in Structural Equation Models” in Sociological Methods & Research — cited 1,226 times.
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1989· 1 entry
Stine started writing Fear Street books
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1986· 1 entry
Stine wrote his first horror novel, called Blind Date
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1969· 1 entry
Stine married editor and writer Jane Waldhorn, who co-founded Parachute Press in 1983
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1943· 2 entries
Born 1943-10-08.
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In Columbus, Ohio, into a Jewish family, the son of Lewis Stine, a shipping clerk, and Anne Feinstein
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