About Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel (1936-2003) attended Wagner College, where he majored in chemistry, but also studied playwrighting with Edward Albee. He pursued playwrighting while teaching high school chemistry for ten years, quitting teaching in order to pursue writing full time after his 1969 play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, won the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to his writing for the stage and screen, Zindel authored more than 50 books, most for young people.
About Jeff Woodman
Jeff Woodman is an actor and narrator. He is a winner of the prestigious Audie Award and a six-time finalist. He has received twenty Earphones Awards and was named the 2008 Best Voice in Fiction & Classics, as well as one of the Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century by AudioFile magazine. As an actor, he originated the title role in Tennessee Williams’ The Notebook of Trigorin and won the S. F. Critics’ Circle Award for his performance in An Ideal Husband. In addition to numerous theater credits on and off Broadway, his television work includes Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Cosby.