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Robert Lawrence Stine, who is affectionately called “R.L. Stine", was born in the City of Columbus in Ohio on January the eighth nineteen forty three. Like most authors Stine did have an early education. As a matter of fact, he attended Ohio State University. College is the place where he got his grasp for writing professionally. With that, he was named “editor” of his school’s humor publication which was known as the “Sundile”. Overtime, Stine graduated from Ohio State University in the year of 1965.
Like most individuals, Robert Lawrence did have a kind of thing in his early life that persuaded him to engage with horror writing. At times, Lawrence would go to the Barber Shop and sit down in a waiting chair with nothing to do. It finally crossed him to pick up one of the available books and start to read. One of the first books he happened to pick up was “Tales From The Crypt”. Just by reading this frightening book  destiny would soon find him writing scary books to entertain curious children.
Years upon completion at Ohio State University, Stine worked for ‘Nickelodeon“-producing a show entitled: “Eureka’s Castle” which was actually a hit for “Nick Junior.” Years later Stine became the editor of a magazine called “Bananas” in which he wrote stories that entertained little children. Later on in the year of 1986 Stine produced a novel which is called “Blind Date”. The purpose of that novel was to appeal to teenagers.  Robert’s creative imagination led him into creating a series three years later named the “Fear Street Series”. This frightening and thrilling series ultimately became the first “Teenage Horror Series”
Finally, Robert Lawrence Stine was envisioned to create his “Goosebumps Series.” Heading is Goosebumps scenarios with titles like: “Say Cheese and Die”, “Stay Out of The Basement”, and other horrific would soon make him one of the best selling authors of all times. Even though Stine initially had problems in terms of critiques with his stories, he continued to write his stories for basically the sake of the young people. The young adults who read his scenarios simply remind him of the times when he was young and established a taste for horror stories.  All in all, Stine’s love for writing horror stories for young people resulted in him writing hundred’s of books. On a good note some of his stories ended up being on screen.
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