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Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20, 1954. He attended the University of California, at Berkeley. During his senior year, he helped out at Hillside Elementary School. It was his experience there that led to his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, written in 1976. After college, he worked for a while in a sweater warehouse in Norwalk, Connecticut before attending Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, where he graduated in 1980. Sideways Stories from Wayside School was accepted for publication during his first week of law school. He worked part-time as a lawyer for eight years before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. His other works include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, the Marvin Redpost books, Fuzzy Mud, and Holes, which won the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was made into a major motion picture. (Bowker Author Biography) — biographie de Le Passage… (plus d'informations)
Le Passage 21,991 exemplaires, 933 critiques
Sideways Stories from Wayside School 7,612 exemplaires, 103 critiques
Wayside School is Falling Down 4,819 exemplaires, 33 critiques
Il y a un garçon dans les toilettes des filles 3,590 exemplaires, 71 critiques
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger 3,194 exemplaires, 21 critiques
Pas à pas 2,772 exemplaires, 72 critiques
Holes (Holes Series) 2,071 exemplaires, 50 critiques
Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School 1,791 exemplaires, 8 critiques
Le pitre de la classe 1,092 exemplaires, 11 critiques
Marvin Redpost: Class President 1,027 exemplaires, 8 critiques
Kidnapped at Birth? (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) 1,013 exemplaires, 14 critiques
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Fuzzy Mud 771 exemplaires, 43 critiques
Sixth Grade Secrets 751 exemplaires, 13 critiques
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Marvin Redpost: Super Fast, Out of Control! 528 exemplaires, 5 critiques
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Marvin Redpost: A Magic Crystal? 329 exemplaires, 1 critique
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Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom 224 exemplaires, 13 critiques
Johnny's in the Basement 109 exemplaires, 1 critique
Monkey Soup 67 exemplaires, 7 critiques
Holes - Teachers Guide (Auteur) 1 exemplaire
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Holes [2003 film] (Screenwriter) 259 exemplaires, 6 critiques
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Louis Sachar (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 and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 2013, it was ranked sixth among all children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal.

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 3 college credits. Sachar later recalled,

I thought it over and decided it was a pretty good deal. College credits, no homework, no term papers, no tests, all I had to do was help out in a second/third grade class at Hillside Elementary School. Besides helping out in a classroom, I also became the Noontime Supervisor, or "Louis the Yard Teacher" as I was known to the kids. It became my favorite college class, and a life changing experience.

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 supernatural elements. Although the book's students were named after children from Hillside and there is a presumably autobiographical character named "Louis the Yard Teacher," Sachar has said that he draws very little from personal experience, explaining that ". ... my personal experiences are kind of boring. I have to make up what I put in my books."

Sachar wrote the book at night over the course of nine months, during which he worked during the day in a Connecticut sweater warehouse. After being fired from the warehouse, Sachar decided to go to law school, around which time Sideways Stories From Wayside School was accepted for publication. The book was released in 1978; though it was not widely distributed and subsequently did not sell very well, Sachar began to accumulate a fan base among young readers. Sachar graduated from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1980 and did part-time legal work while continuing to write children's books. By 1989, his books were selling well enough that Sachar was able to begin writing full-time.

Sachar married Carla Askew, an elementary school counselor, in 1985. They live in Austin, Texas, and 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 Boy in the Girls' Bathroom (1988), and Stanley's lawyer in Holes.

When asked about whether he thought children have changed over the years, Sachar responded: "I've actually been writing since 1976, and my first book is still in print and doing very well."

On April 18, 2003, the Walt Disney film adaptation of Holes was released, which earned $71.4 million worldwide. Sachar himself wrote the film's screenplay. On November 19, 2005, the Wayside School series was adapted into a special, two years later becoming a TV show with two seasons.
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