Biography louis sachar

American writer

Louis Sachar (SAK-ər;^[1] born March 20, 1954) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for the Wayside School series and the novel Holes.

Holes won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature^[2] and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".^[3] In 2013, 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, 1954, 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 colleg