and Found by Joan Abelove Screenplays Let Me Hear You Whisper - 1969 television movie based on his play Up the Sandbox - 1972 movie with Barbra Streisand and David Selby Mame - 1974 musical film starring Lucille Ball, based on the stage musical of the same name. Maria's Lovers - 1984 film, with Nastassja Kinski, John Savage and Robert Mitchum Runaway Train - 1985 film starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, and Rebecca De Mornay; nominated for three Academy Awards Alice in Wonderland - 1985 television movie, with an all-star cast Babes in Toyland - 1986 television adaptation of the film, starring Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - 1989 television adaptation of the novel by Mark Twain. See also References External links Paul Zindel at Library of Congress Authorities — with 64 catalog records 1936 births 2003 deaths 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 20th-century American educators 20th-century American chemists American children's writers Schoolteachers from New York (state) People from Montague Township, New Jersey Margaret A. Edwards Award winners People from Tottenville, Staten Island Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners University of Southern California faculty Wagner College alumni Writers from New York City American writers of young adult literature American male novelists American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from New Jersey Novelists from New York (state) Scientists from New York (state) Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state) Burials at Moravian Cemetery