Celebrities 3_Notable Men
R.L. Stine
Stine was born in Columbus, Ohio the oldest of three children, to a homemaker mother and a shipping clerk father. Stine had a Jewish upbringing. He began writing when he found a typewriter in his attic,[2] subsequently beginning to type stories and joke books and has been writing ever since. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965 and moved to New York City to become a writer. He wrote dozens of joke books for kids under the pen name Bob Turdis and created the humor magazine Bananas, where he worked for many years.
Stine reads a lot in his free time. Some of his favorite authors are Agatha Christie, Ruth Randell, M. C. Beaton, P. G. Wodehouse, and Ray Bradbury.
