About+Louis+Sachar

Louis Sachar is an award winning author for the book [|Holes]. He was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20 1954. He graduated in 1976 and started to write educational books for children at the age of 9 to 13. Books like Holes or The Wayside Series are books that have won many attentions to interested readers, as well as this group of Holes. An interview with Louis shows he is a determined writer, who writes exceptional books. Some of his favorite authors are [|E.L. Doctorow], [|Margaret Atwood] , [|E.B White, Richard Price] and [|Kazuo Ishiguro]. In college he went to [|University of California at Berkeley] where he majored in Economics. When he graduated 1n 1976 he decided to try to write a children's book, which eventually became Sideways Stories from Wayside School. The book Holes was really interesting and exciting so they made a Walt Disney movie of the book Holes.

Louis Sachar got a Newberry Award on 'Holes'. He won the Newberry Award by 'Holes' and won Richard Peck. So holes is really great best book to Louis Sachar, also. He got a Newberry Award again by Small Steps. There are [|lots of fantastic books], which written by Louis Sachar. But still 'Holes' book is novel book, so I suggest you to read this book!-Young

Louis Sachar Louis Sachar was born in New York, March 20th 1984. He had lived in New York until he was nine, then he moved to California. During his childhood, he enjoyed playing “Orange fights” with the locals. He attended college in Ohio, then after his father had passed away, he returned to California, and majored in Economics. And finally graduated in 1976 when he decided to write a children’s book. He now lives in Texas with his wife Carla, his daughter, and his dog.-Varisa

