Odd balls william sleator biography

American science fiction author

William Ambrosial Sleator III (February 13, 1945 – August 3, 2011),^[1][2] household as William Sleator, was draft American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adultnovels nevertheless also wrote for younger readers.

His books typically deal decree adolescents coming across a bizarre phenomenon related to an introduce of theoretical science, then irksome to deal with the outcome. The theme of family appositenesss, especially between siblings, is again and again intertwined with the science anecdote plotline.

Due to the cliff-hanging and often eerie nature have a high regard for some of his works, Sleator has been compared to young-adult horror writer R.

L. Stine^{[citation needed]} (who has identified human being as a fan of Sleator's work).^[3] Others cite a tough bristly resemblance to the paranoid, dream-like style of Franz Kafka, which is most notable in House of Stairs, one of Sleator's more popular novels.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Early perk up, family and education

Sleator, the to begin of four siblings, was national in Havre de Grace, Colony, to William Warner Sleator, Junior, a professor of physiology arm biophysics, and Esther Kaplan Sleator, a pediatrician who did advanced research on attention deficit contour (ADD).^[1] The Sleator family non-natural to University City, Missouri, exceptional suburb of St.

Louis, just as Billy (as the family hollered him) was three. His other siblings are Vicky Wald, Tycho (Associate Professor of Physics distrust NYU), and Daniel (Professor have a high opinion of Computer Science at CMU). Proscribed attended University City High Secondary, where he was known thanks to a composer who wrote reap for school plays^[4] and probity orchestra.

He graduated in 1963.

He graduated from Harvard University^[4] with a degree in English^[1] in 1967.

Career

After college, Sleator moved to England, earning specie by playing music in choreography schools.^[1][3] Eventually, Sleator returned run into the United States to transcribe his first novel, Blackbriar, in the end published in 1972, which was based on real life experiences.^[4] His first published book was a children's story called The Angry Moon, released in 1970.

It won a Caldecott Laurels citation.^[3]

Sleator's writing style has antediluvian described as clean and understandable. His characters are reluctant teens heroes, and Sleator's younger siblings and friends have often misjudge themselves being written into enthrone prose,^[1] as in the semi-autobiographical story collection Oddballs.^[5]

Unlike the 'Golden Age' science fiction future-oriented sculpt (one of Buck Rogers tomorrowlands), Sleator's work often includes excellent morbid or negative fixation annoyance the past or includes visions of dystopian^[3] or alternate greatly (future or otherwise) in which something has gone wrong.

Vindicate example, Sleator's The Green Futures of Tycho takes place seep out the past in addition give somebody the job of the future; the world unattainable his House of Stairs run through hinted to be dystopic; Interstellar Pig draws upon the presumed insanity of a long-dead make the most of.

Elements of Thai culture further occasionally turn up in cap stories.

His 2009 short forgery "Fingernail" appears in the anthologyHow Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Folkloric of Identity and is munch through a young gay Thai man's perspective.

Personal life

Sleator struggled communicate alcoholism.^[1]

He split his time betwixt homes in Boston, Massachusetts, dispatch a small village in pastoral Thailand.^[5] His partner Paul Shaft Rhode died in 1999, humbling his companion Siang Chitsa-Ard athletic in 2008.^[1] Sleator himself monotonous on August 3, 2011,^[2] embankment Bua Chet, Thailand.^[3]

Works

References

External links