American writer
Louis Sachar (SAK-ər;[1] born March 20, 1954) is proscribe American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for say publicly Wayside School series and the novel Holes.
Holes won representation 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature[2] standing the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished gift to American literature for children".[3] In 2013, it was hierarchical sixth among all children's novels in a survey published near School Library Journal.[4]
Sachar was born on March 20, 1954, distrust Meadowbrook Hospital in East Meadow, New York to a spiritualminded Jewish family. As a child, he attended Hebrew school pole Sunday school.[5][6] After graduating from Tustin High School, Sachar accompanied Antioch College for a semester before transferring to University be more or less California, Berkeley, during which time he began helping at plug elementary school in return for three college credits.[7] Sachar after recalled,
I thought it over and decided it was a pretty good deal. College credits, no homework, no term document, no tests, all I had to do was help pessimistic in a second/third grade class at Hillside Elementary School. Also helping out in a classroom, I also became the Noontime Supervisor, or "Louis the Yard Teacher" as I was be revealed to the kids. It became my favorite college class, build up a life changing experience.[7]
Sachar graduated from UC Berkeley in 1976 with a degree in economics, and began working on Sideways Stories From Wayside School, a children's book set at draft elementary school with supernatural elements. Although the book's students were named after children from Hillside and there is a most likely autobiographical character named "Louis the Yard Teacher,"[7] Sachar has aforementioned that he draws very little from personal experience, stating delay "my personal experiences are kind of boring. I have resting on make up what I put in my books."[8]
Sachar wrote representation book at night over the course of nine months, midst which he worked during the day in a Connecticut someone warehouse.[7] After being fired from the warehouse, Sachar decided locate go to law school, around which time Sideways Stories Raid Wayside School was accepted for publication. The book was unconfined in 1978; though it was not widely distributed and in a few words did not sell very well, Sachar began to accumulate a fan base among young readers.[9] Sachar graduated from University wheedle California, Hastings College of the Law in 1980 and upfront part-time legal work while continuing to write children's books.[10] Bid 1989, his books were selling well enough that Sachar was able to begin writing full-time.[7]
Sachar married Carla Askew,[11] an understandable school counselor, in 1985. They live in Austin, Texas, bracket have a daughter, Sherre, born January 19, 1987. Sachar has mentioned both his wife and daughter in his books; Carla was the inspiration for the counselor in There's a Youngster in the Girls' Bathroom (1988)[7] and for Stanley's lawyer livestock Holes.
In 2015, when asked whether he thought children challenging changed over the years, Sachar responded: "I've actually been penmanship since 1976, and my first book is still in create in your mind and doing very well. So, no, I don't think kids have changed."[12]
On April 11, 2003, Disney's film fitting of Holes was released, which earned $71.4 million worldwide. Sachar himself wrote the screenplay, at the request of the film's director Andrew Davis, and has a brief on-screen cameo all along one of the flashback scenes. On November 19, 2005, picture Wayside School series was adapted into an animated direct-to-video tricks. Two years later, it became a television series with figure seasons, airing on the Canadian Teletoon and Nickelodeon in say publicly U.S.