R.L. STINE NET WORTH , BIOGRAPHY, AGE, FAMILY, WIKI, AND LIFE STORY R.L. Stine is a very productive writer and director who is often call...
R.L. STINE NET WORTH, BIOGRAPHY, AGE, FAMILY, WIKI, AND LIFE STORY
R.L. Stine is a very productive writer and director who is often called the "Stephen King of children's books." He was born in 1943 in Columbus, Ohio, and he started writing when he was nine years old. He started out writing joke books and making a funny magazine called "Bananas," but with the book "Blind Date," he found his spot in horror fiction. Over 400 million copies of his books have been sold all over the world, and his Goosebumps series has become a classic in the horror field.
R.L. Stine is a Writer
AGE, BIOGRAPHY, AND WIKI
Writer, Director, and Actor
Date of Birth: October 8, 1943
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA
R.L. Stine's birth sign is Scorpio and he is 79 years old.
Jovial Bob Stine is the pen name of Eric Affabee.
Author, short story writer, TV producer, screenwriter, and chief editor.
Genre: Children's books, horror, science fiction, fantasy, humor, Gothic fiction, genre fiction, dark fantasy, thriller, Supernatural fiction.
Jane Waldhorn, his wife since 1969
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💰 NET WORTH: $100K - $1M
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS: Stine was ranked 36th on Forbes' list of the 40 best-paid entertainers of 1996–97, making $41 million for the year. As of 2008, more than 400 million copies of his books had been sold around the world. In the 1990s, USA Today named Stine the best-selling author in America for three straight years.
Among the awards he has won are the Free Public Library of Philadelphia's Champion of Reading Award in 2002, which was the first time the award was given, the Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Award for Best Book-Mystery/Horror three times, and the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards three times as well. People Weekly put Stine on its list of the "Most Interesting People" in the 1990s. In 2003, the Guinness Book of World Records said that Stine was the author of the best-selling children's book series of all time. He won the Silver Bullet Award from the Thriller Writers of America in 2007 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association in 2014. Even R.L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse, a 4D movie-based feature at SeaWorld (in San Antonio and San Diego) and Busch Gardens (in Williamsburg and Tampa), was inspired by his stories.
BIOGRAPHY/TIMELINE
1943 Stine was born in Columbus, Ohio, on October 8, 1943. His parents, Lewis Stine, who worked as a shipping worker, and Anne Feinstein were Jewish. He grew up in Ohio's Bexley. The Jews were his family. When he was nine years old, he found a typewriter in his closet and started typing stories and joke books. In 1965, he got a Bachelor of Arts in English from Ohio State University. R.L. Stine spent three of his four years at OSU as the editor of the comedy magazine The Sundial. Later, he went to New York City to work as a writer.
1969
Jane Waldhorn was an editor and writer who later helped start Parachute Press with Stine in 1983. They got married on June 22, 1969. Matthew, their only child, was born on June 7, 1980, and he works in the music business.
1975, Stine wrote dozens of funny books for kids under the name Jovial Bob Stine and started the comedy magazine Bananas. Scholastic Press put out 72 issues of Bananas for teens between 1975 and 1984, as well as several "Yearbooks" and print books. Stine was the editor and did most of the writing. Robert Leighton, Suzanne Lord, and Jane Samuels also wrote for the book, and artists Sam Viviano, Samuel B. Whitehead, Bob K. Taylor, Bryan Hendrix, Bill Basso, and Howard Cruse also worked on it. Some of the recurring segments were "Hey, Lighten Up!," "It Never Fails," "Phone Calls," "Joe" (a comic strip by John Holmstrom), "Phil Fly," "Don't You Wish...", "Doctor Duck," "The Teens of Ferret High," "First Date" (a comic strip by Alyse Newman), and "Ask Doctor Si N. Tific."
1986
Blind Date, Stine's first scary book, came out in 1986. He wrote many more books after that, such as The Babysitter, Beach House, Hit and Run, and The Girlfriend. He also co-created and was the head writer for the Nickelodeon Network kids' show Eureeka's Castle, whose original episodes ran as part of the Nick Jr. block of shows from 1989 to 1995.
1989
In 1989, Stine began writing books about Fear Street. Before starting the Goosebumps series, Stine wrote three funny science fiction books called Jerks in Training, Bozos on Patrol, and Losers in Space for the Space Cadets series. Goosebumps was published in 1992 by Stine and Parachute Press.
1995
A Goosebumps TV show ran for four seasons from 1995 to 1998. Three computer games were also made: Escape from HorrorLand, Attack of the Mutants, and Goosebumps HorrorLand. Superstitious was Stine's first book for adults, and it came out in 1995. Since then, he has written three more books for adults: The Sitter, Eye Candy, and Red Rain.
1996
Forbes' list of the 40 highest-paid entertainers of 1996–97 put Stine at number 36, with $41 million in earnings for the year. As of 2008, more than 400 million copies of his books had been sold around the world. In the 1990s, USA Today named Stine the best-selling author in America for three straight years.
2002
Among the awards he has won are the Free Public Library of Philadelphia's Champion of Reading Award in 2002, which was the first time the award was given, the Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Award for Best Book-Mystery/Horror three times, and the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards three times as well. People Weekly put Stine on its list of the "Most Interesting People" in the 1990s. In 2003, the Guinness Book of World Records said that Stine was the author of the best-selling children's book series of all time. He won the Silver Bullet Award from the Thriller Writers of America in 2007 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association in 2014. Even R.L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse, a 4D movie-based feature at SeaWorld (in San Antonio and San Diego) and Busch Gardens (in Williamsburg and Tampa), was inspired by his stories.
2007
In the first ten years of the 21st century, Stine wrote parts of five different book series, including Mostly Ghostly, Rotten School, Fear Street, The Nightmare Room, Goosebumps Horrorland, and the stand-alone books Dangerous Girls (2003) and The Taste of Night (2004). On September 4, 2007, Universal Home Entertainment put out a movie called The Haunting Hour Volume One: Don't Think About It, which starred Emily Osment. In the 2015 movie Goosebumps, Jack Black played an imagined version of R.L. Stine, and Stine himself made a cameo as a teacher named "Mr. Black."
2008: Stine has been called the "Stephen King of children's literature." He has written hundreds of horror fiction books, including the Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The Nightmare Room series. A Space Cadets series, two Hark gamebooks, and dozens of joke books are among his other works. As of 2008, more than 400 million copies of Stine's books had been sold.
2010
Both of them came out again in 2010 with the name Bitten. ISBN 978-0060530808
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