Let Me Hear You Whisper

Let Me Hear You Whisper

Paul Zindel

Paul Zindel

• born May 15, 1936, Staten Island, New York, U.S.

• died March 27, 2003,New York, New York

American playwright and novelist

• whose largely autobiographical work

• features poignant, alienated characters who deal with life’s difficulties in pragmatic and straightforward ways.

Plays

• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1971; filmed 1972), 

• And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (1971), 

• The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild (1973), 

• Let Me Hear You Whisper (1970), 

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Plays Continued

• The Ladies Should Be in Bed (1973),

• A Destiny with Half Moon Street (produced 1983; published 1992),

• and Amulets Against the Dragon Forces (1989; based partly on his novel Confessions of a Teenage Baboon).

Novels

• The Pigman (1968), 

• My Darling, My Hamburger (1969), 

• Harry and Hortense at Hormone High (1984),

•  A Begonia for Miss Applebaum (1989),

• and David & Della (1993).

New ground in 1994 with the horror story Loch,

• he followed with The Doom Stone (1995)

• and Reef of Death (1998).

• He also wrote screenplays of his own works and for Up the Sandbox (1972), 

• Runaway Train (1985),

• and several made-for-television movies.

Controversy in June 2020

Appeals Court Reviews copyright infringement on whether there is substantial similarity between Let Me Hear You Whisper and The Shape of Water