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Louis Sachar
American writer
Louis Sachar (SAK-ər;[1] born March 20, ) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for the Wayside School series and the novel Holes.
Holes won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature[2] and the Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".[3] In , it was ranked sixth among all children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal.[4]
Biography
Sachar was born on March 20, , at Meadowbrook Hospital in East Meadow, New York to a religious Jewish family.
As a child, he attended Hebrew school and Sunday school.[5][6] After graduating from Tustin High School, Sachar attended Antioch College for a semester before transferring to University of California, Berkeley, during which time he began helping at an elementary school in return for three college credits.[7]