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Louis Sachar (/ ˈ s æ k ər / SAK-ər; [1] 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 [ 2 ] and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. 1998 novel by Louis Sachar Holes Author Louis Sachar Language English Genre Adventure, mystery, fantasy Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Ediciones SM (Spain) Publication date August 20, 1998 ISBN 978-0-786-22186-8 Dewey Decimal [Fic] 21 LC Class PZ7 ...
If you grew up loving books like Holes and Sideways Stories from Wayside School, get ready — beloved children’s author Louis Sachar is publishing his first novel for adults. PEOPLE can ...
Holes is a 2003 American neo-Western comedy drama film directed by Andrew Davis and written by Louis Sachar, based on his 1998 novel. The film stars Sigourney Weaver , Jon Voight , Patricia Arquette , Tim Blake Nelson , Eartha Kitt , Khleo Thomas , Dulé Hill , Scott Plank and Shia LaBeouf .
He was drawn to puzzles at an early age; in eighth grade he wrote a paper titled "Puzzles as a Profession". [4] (The paper earned him a B+.) [4] At age 13, Shortz wrote to Language on Vacation author Dmitri Borgmann for advice on how to pursue a career in puzzles. [5] At age 16, Shortz began regularly contributing crossword puzzles to Dell ...
The puzzle proved popular, and Sulzberger himself authored a Times puzzle before the year was out. [11] In 1950, the crossword became a daily feature. That first daily puzzle was published without an author line, and as of 2001 the identity of the author of the first weekday Times crossword remained unknown. [13]
[1] [2] He solved his mother's Dell crossword books and taught himself to construct puzzles in his youth. [1] [2] After graduating from Manheim Central High School in 1975, he went to Penn State University, where he became the Daily Collegian 's first daily crossword constructor, publishing five new puzzles a week for three years.
Patrick D. Berry (born 1970) is an American puzzle creator and editor who constructs crossword puzzles and variety puzzles. He had 227 crosswords published in The New York Times from 1999 to 2018. His how-to guide for crossword construction was first published as a For Dummies book in 2004.