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R.L. Stine

Robert Lawrence Stine was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1943. Stine was a rather shy and fearful child, but he did have a clever imagination. At the age of nine, Stine began typing up his own short stories and humor magazines such as Tales to Drive You Batty. He would then circulate these publications to friends during class. In high school, Stine wrote a humor column for the school newspaper called “Stine’s Lines.”

At Ohio State University, R.L. Stine edited a humor magazine and contributed articles under the name “Jovial Bob.” After college, he moved to New York City with aspirations of becoming a writer. For 16 years, R.L. Stine worked at Scholastic, where he edited and wrote for a humor magazine called Bananas. Stine also wrote for Nickelodeon’s television show, Eureeka’s Castle.

R.L. Stine’s first children’s book, How to be Funny, was published in 1978. Stine wrote humor and joke books until one day an editor asked him to write a young adult horror novel. After Blind Date became an instant best seller, Stine started a young

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"Why do I write these creepy books?" R.L. Stine asks. "I just like to scare people!"

He's been scaring people all around the world for a lot of years. So far, he has sold over 400-million books and his books have been translated into 35 languages, making him one of the best-selling authors in history.

Robert Lawrence Stine was born on October 8, 1943 in Columbus, Ohio. His mother was a home-maker. His father was a shipping clerk in a warehouse. Bob has a younger brother and sister, Bill and Pam. "We were very poor," Bob says. "I had to wear my cousin's old clothes to school. I think it made me very shy. It's one reason I liked staying in my room and writing."

When Bob was nine, he found an old typewriter up in the attic. That discovery changed his life. He carried it down to his room and started typing stories and little joke books.

His mother begged him to go outside and play. But Bob always said it was too boring outside. He stayed in his room typing away — and he has been writing ever since.

In school, Bob was not a great student

R. L. Stine

American writer and producer (born 1943)

Not to be confused with Aurel Stein.

Robert Lawrence Stine (; born October 8, 1943) is an American novelist. He is the writer of Goosebumps, a horror fiction novel series which has sold over 400 million copies globally in 35 languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history.[1] The series spawned a media franchise including two televisionseries, a video game series, a comic series, and two feature films. Stine has been referred to as the "Stephen King of children's literature".[2]

Stine wrote the teenage horror fiction series Fear Street, which has sold over 80 million copies and has been adapted into a trilogy of films.[3] His other horror fiction novel series include Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly,Nightmare Hour, and The Nightmare Room. He has also written dozens of humor books for children, under the alias Jovial Bob Stine.

Early life

Stine was born on October 8, 1943[4] in Columbus, Ohio,[5] the son of Lewis Stine, a shipping clerk,

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