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• According to the Locus Index, his full name was William Warner Sleator III.
• William Sleator's birthday is February 13, 1945.
• He passed away on August 2, 2011.
• He was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland and moved to St. Louis, MO when he was three.
• He graduated from University City High School in 1963.
• He graduated from Harvard in 1967 with BAs in music and English.
• A short biography.
• Sleator lived in Boston and rural Thailand.
• His most recent publisher is Amulet Books, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• He is featured in the following books:
  • Bernard Drew's The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors (Libraries Unlimited, 1996).
  • James and Hazel Davis' Presenting William Sleator - an excellent biography!
  • Deborah Kovacs' Meet the Authors (in various editions.)
  • The Professional Growth Series' Author Profile Collection.
• In 1996, he visited an elementary school in Rochester for their Authors in April program.
• His final imprint contact information was:
  

  	Amulet Books
  	An imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
  	100 Fifth Avenue
  	New York, NY 10011
  

  
  There is more information on William Sleator's page, maintained by his brother Daniel.

• Among the Dolls -
  Vicky is disappointed in her birthday gift of a dollhouse, but she experiences real terror when she is drawn into the house and the lives of its malicious inhabitants.
  • The main character is probably named after Vicky.
• Angry Moon -
  An Indian girl insults the moon and is held prisoner by him until her friend reaches the sky country to rescue her.
• The Beasties -
  When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.
• Blackbriar -
  In the attempt to decipher a number of strange events after he moves into an old cottage, a boy discovers a group of English folk engaged in Devil worship. summary
• Boltzmon! -
  A boltzmon, remnant of a black hole, materializes in eleven-year-old Chris's bedroom and transports him to a parallel world, where he encounters the bitter woman his overbearing older sister will become, after his death, if he cannot convince her to change.
• The Boxes -
  When she opens two strange boxes left in her care by her mysterious uncle, fifteen-year-old Annie discovers a swarm of telepathic creatures and unleashes a power capable of slowing down time. review
• The Boy Who Couldn't Die -
  New book - information coming soon.
• The Boy Who Reversed Himself -
  When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension, she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there.
• Dangerous Wishes -
  To end the bad luck that fifteen-year-old Dom and his parents have been experiencing since their arrival in Thailand, Dom and his new friend Lek search for a jade carving that must be returned to its shrine to appease an angry Thai spirit. review - (search for "Sleator") -
  • This book is the sequel to The Spirit House.
• The Duplicate -
  Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the duplicate turns against him.
• "The Elevator" - (short story)
  No one believes thin, shy, twelve-year-old Martin when he says that something horrible is lurking in his apartment building.
  (in the book Things that Go Bump in the Night edited by Jane Yolen and Martin H. Greenberg)
• Fingers -
  Eighteen-year-old Sam falls in with his mother's bizarre scheme to revitalize his younger brother's flagging career as a piano prodigy, and agrees to compose "new works" by a long dead composer and present them to his brother as the dictations of a ghost.
• The Green Futures of Tycho -
  When he finds an egg-shaped object with which he travels back and forth in time, 11-year-old Tycho grapples with several futures he sees for himself and his family. review by Orson Scott Card - review by Chris Gladis - review by Daniel Talsky -
• Hell Phone -
  New book - information coming soon.
• House of Stairs -
  Five sixteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response. review
• "In the Tunnels" - (short story)
  (in the collection Am I Blue?) -
• Interstellar Pig -
  Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a game they call Interstellar Pig.
• Into the Dream -
  When two youngsters realize they are having the same frightening dream, they begin searching for an explanation for this mysterious coincidence. review -
• The Last Universe -
  New book - information coming soon.
• Marco's Millions -
  Twelve-year-old Marco's love for travel and for his younger sister Lilly, who has psychic powers, leads him to journey to other universes, gaining the ability to go wherever he wishes without growing old.
• The Night the Heads Came -
  When aliens abduct both Leo and his artist friend Time, Leo tries to determine why these creatures from outer space wand particularly to use his friend's talent.
  • There seem to be references to both "Day" and "Night" for this book. Not sure if they are two different books, or if it's just a mistake.
  • This book is also available in Braille.
• Oddballs -
  A collection of stories based on experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual assortment of family and friends. review -
• Once, Said Darlene -
  Darlene's stories sound unbelievable but she insists they are all true.
• Others See Us -
  When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen-year-old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members at the annual summer reunion. review
• Parasite Pig -
  Sixteen-year-old Barney, infected by an alien parasite, and his friend Katie are taken to the planet J'koot by extraterrestrials intent on playing the dangerous game known as Interstellar Pig.
• Rewind -
  Not long after learning that he was adopted, eleven-year-old Peter is hit by a car and then given several chances to alter events that could lead to his death. review
• Run -
  Three teen-agers, thrown together by chance in an isolated house, become increasingly aware of a threat lurking in the darkness outside.
• Singularity -
  Sixteen-year-old twins Harry and Barry stumble across a gateway to another universe, where a distortion in space and time causes a dramatic change in their competitive relationship.
• The Spirit House -
  Fifteen-year-old Julie investigates the suspicious behavior of the Thai exchange student staying with her family and comes to believe in the wish-granting power of a spirit that appears to have followed him across the ocean.
• Strange Attractors -
  Max finds himself in possession of a time travel device which is eagerly sought by two desperate men, the scientist who invented it and the scientist's alter ego from a different timeline.
• That's Silly -
  Two playmates have unusual experiences with both magic and pretending, and are not always sure which is which.
• Test -
  In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire life, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test.

Dr. Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator	Daniel maintains a page for Mr. Sleator. Some pictures of the family and some book covers. The text of Oddballs, a book about the Sleators' childhood. Daniel is the president of the Internet Chess Club. The TCS Genealogy has an entry for him.
Dr. Tycho Sleator	Tycho's official NYU Physics page. Tycho's personal home page.
Dr. William W. Sleator	Dr. Sleator is Daniel, Tycho, Vicky and William's father. He is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Esther Kaplan Sleator	Dr. Sleator was Daniel, Tycho, Vicky and William's mother. She was a pediatrician and did the original work on Attention Deficit Disorder.
Vicky Sleator Wald	Among the Dolls is dedicated to William's sister, Vicky.

• Brief Biographies has a detailed biography of William Sleator.
• The Locus Index has a great book list.(link updated 04/23/2010)
• A great page about William Sleator, with links.
• Another great page by Becky Tench.
• SFSite has some great reviews of William Sleator's work.

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