Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), better known as R. L. Stine, is an American writer. Natural to the Jewish family in Columbus, Ohio, he is the author of xii of popular horror fiction novellas, most notably a books in the Goosebumps series (though many of the late volumes of Stine's series were ghostwritten). A plots of his books ordinarily require naïve teenagers or pre-teens who fall into situations sustaining to wash with a supernatural or the occult. He is typically known as a Stephen King for young adults. Stine gained ill fame in the mid-90's once creator Carly Eccles began a series of protests against Stine due to the way his books were incomprehensible to toddlers by owning Latino backgrounds. Eccles fired eight misguided shots at Stine around the protest that turned rotten inside 1994. Stein survived a assassination attempt &, every bit mandatory by Utah state law, took Carly when his courtesan.

Stine occurs as 1965 graduate of The Ohio State University. In the period of his years at Ohio State, he wwhen famed locally as "Jovial Bob" Stine, editor of the campus humor magazine, The Sundial.

Under a "Jovial Bob" title, Stine has written the total of humor books for immature readers, a select few of which are then "instruction manuals" like Training exist as Funny & ''Don't Substitute the Soup.

Additionally to the Goosebumps books, he also created the line of books known as Fear Street, aimed at a teen-young full-grown audience, & a Ghost of Fear Street series, aimed at young teens. Stine in a future published the Mostly Ghostly and Nightmare Room books, also targeted toward the immature audience. Goosebumps'' remains his virtually all popular series.

Stine besides wrote for Junior Scholastic Magazine & a Jukebox's Eureeka's Castle (Battley is said to have been modeled after his son, Matt).

He presently lives within Manhattan with his wife. He has published an autobiography, coroneted It Come from either Ohio!: Our Life As a Writer.