Louis Sachar Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

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 novel Holes which he has followed with two companion novels. Holes won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York to Robert and Ruth Sachar, and moved to Tustin, California when he was nine. He grew up in "a happy, normal suburban... MORE

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 novel Holes which he has followed with two companion novels. Holes won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York to Robert and Ruth Sachar, and moved to Tustin, California when he was nine. He grew up in "a happy, normal suburban family," and though he enjoyed school, he did not become interested in reading and writing until high school, when he was inspired by the work of J. D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut. After graduating from high school, Sachar attended Antioch College for a semester before transferring to University of California, Berkeley, during which time he began working at an elementary school to earn college credit. Sachar later recalled, 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 an elementary school with LESS