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	Holes
		Louis Sachar: Well, some children's books I feel try to pander to kids, make, you know, jokes that are somewhat in bad taste or, I mean, it's hard choosing a word, let me think about it a minute.
		Louis Sachar: I imagine there are parts that are boring, especially during the first draft, where I am just trying to figure out what happens, when I'm taking the character through the daily process.
		Louis Sachar: No. It could be how the character is feeling, it could be, it tends to be action, but I don't think in those terms, I just think in terms of what's interesting to read, how I am going to get the character.
	teacher.scholastic.com /scholasticnews/indepth/holes/louis.Sachar.htm (4393 words)

	Author Profile:Louis Sachar -Sharron McElmeel
		Sachar began to write in 1976, during his final year in undergraduate school at the University of California in Berkeley.
		Sachar knew the treasure would have been buried by Kissin Kate Barlow and that the warden would be her granddaughter who would use the inmates as slaves in an attempt to find the treasure.
		Sachar's books about Wayside School have been immensely popular with intermediate and early middle school readers, and his Marvin Redpost books are often chosen by readers who are just becoming comfortable with chapter books.
	www.mcelmeel.com /writing/sachar.html (1322 words)

	Books: Louis Sachar's Success Story
		Sachar based the Warden on a woman he knows, although he is quick to say, "But she's not nasty like the Warden, not at all.
		Sachar says that he's not sure if he's still as satisfied with the book as he was before it was published.
		Meanwhile, Louis Sachar's life in North Austin sails calmly on, seemingly untroubled by the stress that success is rumored to bring.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue26/books.sachar.html (2063 words)

	Educational Paperback Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Louis Sachar (pronunciation: SACK er) was born in East Meadow, New York.
		Sachar gets a lot of fan letters and visits schools, which helps him to keep in touch with kids somewhat, but he feels the contact is mostly superficial.
		Sachar was married in 1985, and his daughter was born in 1987.
	www.edupaperback.org /showauth.cfm?authid=71 (830 words)

	USATODAY.com - For Sachar, childhood is perilous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Louis Sachar is magic to the toughest circle of critics: librarians, children's book sellers, teachers — and, most of all, kids.
		Sachar, 51, was born in East Meadow, N.Y. When he was in third grade, his family — "a happy, normal suburban family" — moved to Southern California.
		Sachar works from his home, and no one, except Watson, is allowed into his office, where he has a desk, a computer and a 1950s pinball machine.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2006-01-09-sachar-main_x.htm (638 words)

	News ~ Lois Sachar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Louis Sachar was a 22-year-old economics major at UC Berkeley with a single job prospect after his 1976 graduation: managing the books for a sweater warehouse in Norwalk, Conn. After eight months, he was fired--not for insubordination but "incompetence." Could making money, he wondered, ever be fun?
		Louis Sachar is not a man given to epiphanies.
		Sachar remembered his teacher reciting Charlotte's Web to his fourth-grade class; when Sherre was in fifth grade, he read Holes to her class.
	www.walden.com /web/teach/news/2003/louissachar (2258 words)

	City of Austin - MBC03: Louis Sachar
		Celebrated author Louis Sachar, winner of a National Book Award and the 1999 Newbery Medal for his novel Holes, is also recognized for his ever-popular story There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, his "Wayside School" series for middle graders, and his "Marvin Redpost" chapter books for younger readers.
		Sachar's trademark is a humorous and realistic portrayal and exploration of relationships and feelings; his story lines characteristically chart the efforts of his various characters to discover and then assert their young identities.
		Sachar attended college at Antioch in Ohio his first year, but upon the death of his father he returned to California to be close to his mother.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /library/mbc03_author.htm (1863 words)

	Kidsreads.com - Louis Sachar
		Louis Sachar's book HOLES, winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe—Horn Book Award, is also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, an ALA Notable Book, and was made into a major motion picture.
		Louis Sachar's SMALL STEPS chronicles life after Camp Green Lake for Theodore "Armpit" Johnson, one of the former occupants of Tent D from the Newbery Award-winning book HOLES.
		In this interview, Sachar explains why he chose to focus his highly anticipated novel on this particular character over all the others.
	www.kidsreads.com /authors/au-sachar-louis.asp (618 words)

	Louis Sachar - Holes
		Louis Sachar was born in New York but moved with his family to southern California (Orange County) when he was nine years old.
		Sachar finished the book after graduation and learned it had been accepted for publication the same week he began law school at the University of California-San Francisco.
		In Holes, Sachar does not reveal the full extent of the coincidences to his characters; while Zero and Stanley are aware of their accidental connection through the theft of the shoes, they appear to be unaware of their deeper connection through their ancestors.
	www.northern.edu /hastingw/sachar.htm (1505 words)

	When we last read Louis Sachar ...
		Sachar, who shares a North Austin home with his wife, Carla, and recently sent his daughter Sherre off to Cornell University, sat down last week to talk with the American-Statesman during a busy lunch hour at Din Ho Chinese BBQ.
		Sachar, it should be noted, has resided about 10 minutes away from the Target in question for many years.
		Louis Sachar: The director who did "Holes," Andy Davis, would like to do it, and Walden (Media), which financed "Holes," expressed some interest, so they're looking for a partner to do it with.
	www.statesman.com /life/content/life/stories/books/01/8sachar.html (1230 words)

	Jubilee Books - Profile of Louis Sachar
		Louis Sachar is the author of a number of children's books including 'Holes' which was recently made into a film staring Sigourney Weaver and John Voight.
		Sachar was born on March 20, 1954, in East Meadow, New York.
		Louis Sachar has published many books for children including 'Camp Green Lake Survival Guide', 'The Boy Who Lost His Face' and 'There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom'.
	www.jubileebooks.co.uk /jubilee/magazine/authors/louis_sachar/louis_sachar_profile.asp (371 words)

	Louis Sachar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis Sachar (IPA: [sækɚ]), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books.
		Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York, moved to Tustin, California when he was nine, and now lives in Austin, Texas.
		Although Sachar graduated and passed the bar exam, he decided to be a full-time writer for children rather than a lawyer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Sachar (269 words)

	Teenreads.com - HOLES by Louis Sachar
		Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York, moved to Southern California when he was nine, and now lives in Austin, Texas.
		Although Louis graduated and passed the bar exam, he opted to be a full-time writer for children rather than a lawyer.
		Louis met his wife, Carla, when he was a visiting author at a school in Texas.
	www.teenreads.com /guides/holes2.asp (638 words)

	Louis Sachar
		Louis Sachar wrote his first children’s story as an assignment for a high school creative writing class.
		Sachar didn’t give writing for children a second thought until he graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1976.
		Sachar was known as Wolfman (probably because of his wild hair, he says), and he hung around with Jarhead, Cool Breezer, and Little Red.
	www.patriciamnewman.com /sachar.html (844 words)

	BBC7 - Big Toe Radio Show - Author Louis Sachar
		Louis Sachar was born in New York in 1954.
		Louis worked part time as a lawyer and part time as a writer from 1980.
		Louis says that it takes him about a year and a half to write a book.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbc7/bigtoe/books/authors/sachar.shtml (254 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wayside School Is Falling Down: Books: Louis Sachar,Adams,Louis Sachan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sachar has written 30 tongue-in-cheek, slightly madcap stories that are sure to appeal to the slightly caustic humor that is typical of middle readers.
		Louis Sachar is a great author who wrote this book, Wayside School.
		Louis Sachar has written so many fiction stories, but the best one I have read so far was this one.
	www.amazon.ca /Wayside-School-Falling-Louis-Sachar/dp/0688078680 (927 words)

	Author Profile: Louis Sachar
		Louis Sachar was one of that breed, showing signs of being a future Roald Dahl.
		Sachar also concedes that Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus and William Goldman's The Princess Bride were major influences in writing Holes.
		Today, Louis Sachar still writes in the office over his garage, living in Austin with his wife Carla, teenage daughter Sherre, and their two dogs.
	www.trelease-on-reading.com /sachar.html (1340 words)

	Online NewsHour: Edward Ball -- November 24, 1998
		Louis Sachar, author of the National Book Award-winning novel Holes, discusses his work with Elizabeth Farnsworth.
		LOUIS SACHAR: Well, it was when I was going to school in Berkeley.
		LOUIS SACHAR: I'd say the first source was just having moved from San Francisco to Texas and being exposed to the heat here.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec98/sacher_11-25.html (1309 words)

	Holes - Louis Sachar - Review - Don't Get Bitten By A Yellow-Spotted Lizard
		Sachar cleverly expounds the parallel stories, and then at the end of the book cleverly brings them all together.
		The story is clever enough, and says much for the author’s inventive imagination, but it is the way that Sachar weaves his yarn that leaves you literally spell bound, and unable to put this book down.
		The relationships between all the different characters are well developed, and he touches on a number of contentious issues, such as innocence and guilt, and racial inequality.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/holes-louis-sachar/413333 (1306 words)

	Borders - Feature - Louis Sachar
		Don't think of Louis Sachar's upcoming novel, Small Steps, as a "sequel" to Holes, which won both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
		You could think of it as a "follow-up." The two novels are very different, but Sachar's fans will not be disappointed.
		The other teenager Sachar focuses on is Kaira DeLeon, born Kathy Spears, who at 17 is one of the hottest singers on the pop charts.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=sachar2 (849 words)

	BookPage Interview January 2006: Louis Sachar
		It's just that eight years have passed since Holes was published, and Sachar is ready to move on to other subjects—like his new novel for young readers, Small Steps.
		Featuring diva Kaira DeLeon, a Beyoncé-like pop princess who seems to have it all, her sleazy stepfather-manager, Jerome Paisley, and a pair of Camp Green Lake veterans readers will recognize from Holes, Small Steps is a stylish, timely book, written with all the rhythm and snap of a rap tune.
		In 2003, a much-praised movie version of the novel was released, with a screenplay by Sachar himself.
	www.bookpage.com /0601bp/louis_sachar.html (837 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Small Steps: Books: Louis Sachar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Louis Sachar is one of the few new masters of American fiction
		Another masterpiece by Louis Sachar, once again proving that she is an excellent author by describing things such as feeling, locations and people.
		The only ever-so-small problem I found with this book is that Louis Sachar takes out most of the characters from the original book and tells the story of two characters from the first book, this is really okay though because Louis describes the characters lives and personallities really well.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Small-Steps-Louis-Sachar/dp/0747580308 (908 words)

	Scholastic.com \| AuthorsandBooks: Author bookList
		As writer of books for elementary school students, Louis Sachar tries to recall what it felt like for him to be that age.
		When Sachar turned nine, his family moved to Orange County in California, which, at the time, was mostly orange groves.
		Sachar says he had more fun writing that book than any of his others, because it was just a hobby then, and he never truly expected to be published.
	books.scholastic.com /teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorhome.jsp?authorID=85&collateralID=5278&displayName=Biography (578 words)

	Internet Field Trip: Newbery Medal Winner Louis Sachar \| Scholastic.com
		The Newbery Medal has been given since 1922 "to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." The 1999 Newbery Medal winner was Holes, a book by Louis Sachar.
		Louis Sachar is well-known to middle grade children for his Wayside School books and other humorous novels.
		Or, to learn more about Louis Sachar and how he created Holes, visit the PBS NewsHour site to see Elizabeth Farnsworth's November 25, 1998 interview of Louis Sachar.
	content.scholastic.com /browse/article.jsp?id=2761 (386 words)

	ALA \| Author Louis Sachar wins 1999 Newbery Medal;Illustrator Mary Azarian wins Caldecott Medal
		Winners of the 1999 Newbery and Caldecott awards – the most prestigious awards in children's literature – are Louis Sachar, author of "Holes," and Mary Azarian, illustrator of "Snowflake Bentley."
		Sachar's "Holes," published by Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus and Giroux, tells the story of Stanley Yelnats.
		The heir to his family's curse of bad luck, Stanley is convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
	ala.org /ala/pressreleasesbucket/pressreleases200/authorlouissachar.htm (425 words)

	Louis Sachar Biography \| Authors and Artist for Young Adults
		Sachar's male and female protagonists struggle and learn to cope with the world--with not a little help from the funny bone--just as Sachar himself had to finally decide his own true professional identity: lawyer or writer"
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
		Louis Sachar from Authors and Artist for Young Adults.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/louis-sachar-aya (213 words)

	Amazon.fr : Dogs Don't Tell Jokes: Livres en anglais: Louis Sachar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Entering a talent contest as a stand-up comedian forces him to look more closely at the effect his humor has on others and on himself.
		Sachar balances the fun with moments of insight and feeling.
		Dogs Don't Tell Jokes is an excellent choice for junior high readers, and Sachar's younger fans will enjoy it too.
	www.amazon.fr /Dont-Tell-Jokes-Louis-Sachar/dp/0679833722 (410 words)

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