Daniel Pinkwater (b. 1941) is an author (mostly of children's books) and occasional commentator on National Public Radio. His most well-known books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death, Fat Men from Space, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot.

Pinkwater tends to write books about (frequently obese) social misfits who find themselves in bizarre situations, such as searching for a floating island populated by human-sized intelligent lizards (Lizard Music), exploring other universes with an obscure relative (Borgel), and discovering that their teeth can function as interstellar radio antennae (Fat Men from Space).

They are often, though not always, set in thinly disguised versions of Chicago or in New Jersey. A recurring character in many of his books set in Chicago is the Chicken Man, an elderly man who carries a performing chicken on his head.

He often varies his name slightly between books (among, e.g., "Daniel Pinkwater", "Daniel M. Pinkwater", "Daniel Manus Pinkwater", "D. Manus Pinkwater", etc.); allegedly, he claims that he does this in order to annoy the children's librarians who have to catalogue his books.

Contents

1 Partial Bibliography 1.1 Children's books 1.2 Picture books 1.3 Adult fiction 1.4 Non-fiction 2 External link

Partial Bibliography

Children's books

• Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars
• Fat Men from Space
• The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
• Borgel
• The Last Guru
• The Magic Moscow
• The Magic Pretzel
• Slaves of Speigel
• Lizard Music
• Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story
• The Snarkout Boys books:
  • The Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death
  • The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror
• The Worms of Kukumlima
• Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario
• Young Adult Novel

Picture books

• The Big Orange Splot
• Guys From Space

Adult fiction

• The Afterlife Diet

Non-fiction

• Hoboken Fish and Chicago Whistle: a book of essays, combining essays from two previous books:
  • Chicago Days, Hoboken Nights
  • Fish Whistle
• Superpuppy: on raising a dog
• Uncle Boris in the Yukon: and Other Shaggy Dog Stories

External link

• His web page (http://www.pinkwater.com).