Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar | |
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 Louis Sachar at the Texas Book Festival, 2006. | |
| Born | March 20, 1954 East Meadow, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Hastings College of the Law |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Spouse | Carla Askew (1 child) |
| Website | |
| http://www.louissachar.com | |
Louis Sachar (/ˈsækər/ SAK-ər; born March 20, 1954) is an American author of children's books. He is best known for the series Sideways Stories From Wayside School and for the novels Pig City and Holes which he has followed with two companion novels.
Holes won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature[1] and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".[2]
Works
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978)
- Wayside School is Falling Down (1989)
- Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School (1989)
- More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School (1994)
- Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger (1995)
- Marvin Redpost
- Kidnapped at 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
- Holes (1998) — winner of the National Book Award[1] and Newbery Medal[2]
- Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake (2003)
- Small Steps (2006)
- Other books
- Johnny's in the Basement (1981)
- Someday Angeline (1983)
- Sixth Grade Secrets (1987) (known as Pig City in the UK[3])
- There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom (1987)
- The Boy Who Lost His Face (1989)
- Dogs Don't Tell Jokes (1991)
- Monkey Soup (1992) (illustrated by Cat Bowman Smith)
- The Cardturner (May 11, 2010)
See also
References
- ^ a b
"National Book Awards – 1998". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
(With acceptance speech by Sachar.) - ^ a b
"Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present". Association for Library Service to Children. (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA).
"The John Newbery Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2012-03-26. - ^ "Pig City by Louis Sachar". The Bookbag. 2009-10-24. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
External links
- Official website
- Louis Sachar at IMDb
- Louis Sachar at Library of Congress, with 40 library catalog records
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Categories:
- 1954 births
- American children's writers
- Jewish American writers
- Newbery Medal winners
- National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law alumni
- Antioch College alumni
- People from Nassau County, New York
- Living people