‘People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.’

— R.L. Stine

Robert Lawrence Stine was born October 8, 1943, and is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor. He has been referred to as the ‘Stephen King of children’s literature’ and is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly and The Nightmare Room series’. Some of his other works include a Space Cadets trilogy, two Hark gamebooks, and dozens of joke books. Stine’s books have sold over 400 million copies as of 2008.