The Night the Heads Came by William Sleator

He attended University City High School, where he was known as a composer who wrote scores for school plays and the orchestra. His younger siblings are Vicky Wald, Tycho (Associate Professor of Physics at NYU), and Daniel (Professor of Computer Science at CMU). Louis, when Billy (as the family called him) was three. The Sleator family moved to University City, Missouri, a suburb of St. Sleator, the oldest of four siblings, was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, to William Warner Sleator, Jr., a professor of physiology and biophysics, and Esther Kaplan Sleator, a pediatrician who did pioneering research on attention deficit disorder (ADD). Biography Early life, family and education Others cite a strong resemblance to the paranoid, dream-like style of Franz Kafka, which is most notable in House of Stairs, one of Sleator's more popular novels.

Stine (who has identified himself as a fan of Sleator's work). The theme of family relationships, especially between siblings, is frequently intertwined with the science fiction plotline.ĭue to the suspenseful and often eerie nature of some of his works, Sleator has been compared to young-adult horror writer R. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical science, then trying to deal with the situation.

William Warner Sleator III (Febru– August 3, 2011), known as William Sleator, was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers.

The Night the Heads Came by William Sleator