Author/Playwright Paul Zindel dies at 66

San Jose Mercury News story: Paul Zindel won a Pulitzer in the 1970s for his play “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds”. He was also a celebrated writer of books for young adults, including My Darling, My Hamburger, The Pigman and The Pigman’s Legacy, and Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on My Eyeball!. The New York Times reports that he succumbed to cancer, and also talks about the troubled childhood that inspired his work.