You may recognize this famous author's name if you read the goosebumps series when you were younger. Or perhaps when you were a little older and a little braver you read something from his Fear Street series. He's been entertaining readers for over 20 years.

Today the man who has spent his career making others lose sleep at night is celebrating his 64th birthday.

In researching Stine for this entry I learned he began his career not trying to scare young adults but instead make them laugh. At Scholastic he started working in magazines then eventually made into books. To find out more fun facts about popular author read a few entries in our Biography Resource Database. You can get to it by going to the library's website and clicking IBrowse Databases. From there you'll want to select Literature from the pull down menu.

For a complete list of his fiction books check out Novelist, our reader's advisory database.