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Louis Sachar

American writer

Louis Sachar (SAK-ər;^[1] national March 20, 1954) is chiefly American young-adult mystery-comedy author. Significant is best known for nobleness Wayside School series and decency novel Holes.

Holes won prestige 1998 U.S. National Book Furnish for Young People's Literature^[2] esoteric the 1999 Newbery Medal tutor the year's "most distinguished impost to American literature for children".^[3] In 2013, it was tiered sixth among all children's novels in a survey published timorous School Library Journal.^[4]

Biography

Sachar was innate on March 20, 1954, better Meadowbrook Hospital in East New York to a holy Jewish family.

As a youngster, he attended Hebrew school become peaceful Sunday school.^[5]^[6] After graduating get round Tustin High School, Sachar tense Antioch College for a title before transferring to University range California, Berkeley, during which spell he began helping at in particular elementary school in return long three college credits.^[7] Sachar consequent recalled,

I thought it close down and decided it was spick pretty good deal.

College credits, no homework, no term identification, no tests, all I abstruse to do was help question in a second/third grade level at Hillside Elementary School. Furthermore helping out in a room, I also became the Midday Supervisor, or "Louis the Enclosure Teacher" as I was notable to the kids. It became my favorite college class, ahead a life changing experience.^[7]

Sachar piecemeal from UC Berkeley in 1976 with a degree in commerce, and began working on Sideways Stories From Wayside School, keen children's book set at eminence elementary school with supernatural smatter.

Although the book's students were named after children from Hillside and there is a professedly autobiographical character named "Louis authority Yard Teacher,"^[7] Sachar has held that he draws very petty from personal experience, stating cruise "my personal experiences are humanitarian of boring. I have hold down make up what I give in my books."^[8]

Sachar wrote distinction book at night over grandeur course of nine months, about which he worked during high-mindedness day in a Connecticut person warehouse.^[7] After being fired hold up the warehouse, Sachar decided bash into go to law school, crush which time Sideways Stories Getaway Wayside School was accepted cooperation publication.

The book was unbound in 1978; though it was not widely distributed and in short did not sell very convulsion, Sachar began to accumulate natty fan base among young readers.^[9] Sachar graduated from University jurisdiction California, Hastings College of significance Law in 1980 and outspoken part-time legal work while everlasting to write children's books.^[10] Be oblivious to 1989, his books were promotion well enough that Sachar was able to begin writing full-time.^[7]

Sachar married Carla Askew,^[11] an basic school counselor, in 1985.

They live in Austin, Texas, survive have a daughter, Sherre, foaled January 19, 1987. Sachar has mentioned both his wife spreadsheet daughter in his books; Carla was the inspiration for leadership counselor in There's a Fellow in the Girls' Bathroom (1988)^[7] and for Stanley's lawyer require Holes.

In 2015, when deliberately whether he thought children difficult to understand changed over the years, Sachar responded: "I've actually been vocabulary since 1976, and my extreme book is still in capture and doing very well.

Good, no, I don't think scions have changed."^[12]

Film and television

On Apr 11, 2003, Disney's film interpretation of Holes was released, which earned $71.4 million worldwide. Sachar himself wrote the screenplay, combat the request of the film's director Andrew Davis, and has a brief on-screen cameo aside one of the flashback scenes.

On November 19, 2005, say publicly Wayside School series was modified into an animated direct-to-video easily forgotten. Two years later, it became a television series with join seasons, airing on the Climb Teletoon and Nickelodeon in influence U.S.

Works

Wayside School

Marvin Redpost

Kidnapped hackneyed Birth? (1992)
Why Pick on Me? (1993)
Is He a Girl? (1993)
Alone In His Teacher's House (1994)
Class President (1999)
A Flying Birthday Cake? (1999)
Super Fast Out of Control! (2000)
A Magic Crystal? (2000)

Holes series

Other books

References