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"The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result."Â -- Louis Sachar
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Louis Sachar was born March 20, 1954, in New York. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Tustin, California, where he spent the rest of his childhood. He was a good student, but didn't become interested in reading and writing until high school. Then, he discovered Kurt Vonnegut and J.D. Salinger, two writers who continue to influence his work.
After graduation, Sachar attended Antioch College in Ohio, but only for one semester. His father died, and he had to return to California, where he worked selling Fuller brushes door-to-door. He eventually returned to college at the University of California, where he studied economics. Here, Sachar would have an experience that would change his life forever.
One day, Sachar saw a little girl handing out advertisements. A local elementary school needed teacher's aides. Sachar jumped at the opportunity to earn course credits and work with second and third graders at Hillside Elementary School. After graduating college, he went to work at a sweater warehouse in Connecticut, but the students were still on his mind. During the nine months he worked at the warehouse, he wrote stories about the students he'd worked with. Eventually, these stories became Sideways Stories from Wayside School.
Sachar was fired from his job at the warehouse, and he decided to go to law school at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. During his first semester, Sideways Stories from Wayside School was accepted by a publisher. He continued to write stories for children after his graduation from law school in 1980. In 1985, he married his wife Carla. They had one daughter, Sherre, in 1987. Sachar worked as a lawyer until he could support himself and his family with his fiction, which was in 1989. Sachar and his family live in Austin, Texas.
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