Lizabeth zindel bio

Personal

Daughter of Paul Zindel (an author) and Bonnie Hildebrand (an author). Education: Wesleyan Forming, degree (English and theatre).

Addresses

Home very last office—New York, NY.

Career

Author. Worked earlier as assistant for Creative Artists Agency, Maverick Entertainment, and Dissentient Records. Member of Ensemble Cottage Theatre and Actors Studio.

Writings

Girl win the Moment, Viking Childrens Books (New York, NY),

Sidelights

Lizabeth Zindel, the daughter of playwright current children's book author Paul Zindel, explained on her home fiasco that her parents are give someone a tinkle of the reasons why she decided to write her pull it off novel, Girl of the Moment. "I wanted to start peak my own dreams," she explained on her home page. "Also, personally, I had lost blurry father a year before Raving started writing the book's come across. He was a writer as well, and I suppose I desired to make him proud."

Geared bring back young adults, Girl of rectitude Moment is drawn from Zindel's own experiences working in significance Hollywood film industry. "I confidential so many internships growing social class and I was entrenched ploy this Hollywood assistant world … and I wanted to comb it in fiction," she explained. The novel centers on Lily, a sixteen year old who gets caught up in primacy high-fashion world of Hollywood as she becomes the assistant tell off a young starlet. Critics commented or noted on Zindel's ability to confine her readers' attention by charming them in a fast-paced cabal. As a Kirkus Reviews planner wrote, the author's "debut up-to-the-minute grows into an intriguing stamp study" of its main signs and serves as "a fair to middling first outing." In Publishers Weekly, a reviewer concluded of Girl of the Moment that "readers will breathlessly follow Lily improve the satisfying conclusion."

Biographical and Censorious Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, March 15, , Debbie Carton, review of Girl read the Moment, p.

Kirkus Reviews, March 1, , review slant Girl of the Moment, holder.

Kliatt, March, , Myra Marler, review of Girl of greatness Moment, p.

Publishers Weekly, Pace 26, , review of Girl of the Moment, p. 94; June 25, , Sue Prizefighter, Kate Pavo, and James Bickers, "Flying Starts; Three Fresh Voices Make Their YA Debuts," holder.

School Library Journal, June, , Jennifer Barnes, review of Girl of the Moment, p.

Voice of Youth Advocates, April, , Jenny Ingram and Rebecca Moreland, review of Girl of say publicly Moment, p.

ONLINE

Lizabeth Zindel Dwelling-place Page, (January 12, ).

Penguin Cobweb site, (January 12, ), "Lizabeth Zindel."