Luis Sachar is supposed to be a lawyer before writing “holes”, side stories from Wayside School “

Luis Sachar was really intended to be a lawyer.

However, between the Faculty of Law at the Himings College of Law in 1977 and graduated in 1980, he published his first book,Side stories from Wayside School“

Zany, who is often a surrealist guarantor of strange in the semester, has become a young adult, as he unloaded a series of four books and a TV program.

“I was thinking, boy, I really need to obtain a legal job,” said Sashar, 71, to the newspaper “The Post” in his bike on the soft West Coast.

So far, “Wayside” has sold more than 15 million copies, According to publishersAnd it has never been printed since its first publication in 1978, with the exception of a short period after the original publisher in Chicago folded.

While the first appearance is a favorite of fans, the East Meadow, which is the most famous Long Island-native book is 1998.Holes“

The story of a boy who was mistakenly accused of theft and sent to the Taksas Hope Center for the National Books Award and the Newbury Medaland Sachar’s air conditioning in Disney movie has made more than $ 70 million.

Now the 71 -year -old, who lives in Nioport Beach, California, is trying a new thing: his first novel for adults.The magician of the Tiger Castle“August 5.

It is a fictional story in the Renaissance, starring a courageous princess called Tulia and her witch for motherhood, Anatol, who uses every trick he knows to help her escape from a forced marriage.

Here, he talks to this position about his 50 -year writing career.

What gave you the idea of “side stories from Wayside”?

I was going to the college in Berkeley, I was old, and I just needed a course to take to fill my work schedule. There was this little girl standing in the middle of Berkeley Quad, who reached paper sheets saying, “Help, we need a teacher aid in our school! Earn 3 credit units.” I thought, well, this looks easy and could be fun. I had no interest in children at the time, I was trying to reach the college. It turned out that I ended up with this third semester and I will go for an hour every day and I loved it. It became my favorite. Then I got an employment to be what they called the supervisor at noon time and all of them called them “Louis threw a teacher” (a person in the way “. So I thought I would try to write a book for children after graduating from college and left the school. I didn’t think I would continue to write more.

Schools wrote on the road funny and light, but the topic of “holes” is more serious. What inspired this book?

I wrote, I think 16 books are at that time, and they were all about children at school, and I no longer want to write about children at school anymore. She got the idea of children in a reformist juvenile facility, and thought, “Children will love to read about it.” I had moved to Texas from San Francisco, who was a major change in culture and temperature, and I just try to grow a bush in my backyard, just drilling a hole was a lot of work. I think this is where I got the idea that children dig holes in heat.

What did your daughter (evil, 38 now) think about your books that arose?

She always had conflicting feelings about my books because all her friends at school were lovers. Her friends will say, “Oh, your father is Louis Sakott.” She does not always know whether they love her for her or because I was her father. Or you’ll get good degrees – I didn’t know that at that time, and I later found it – when her teachers tell her that she was a good writer, I thought that just because she was my daughter she was telling her that.

What made you want to write a book for adults at this stage of your career?

When I first started that, I thought it would be a book for adults. I thought he would teach young adults a little about the Renaissance. Anatol chose as a kind of strange narrator to tell that story. When I wrote and worked on it day after day, Anatole became a kind of story center, and it is not a good idea to have a 40 -year -old child at your youth book center.

Which wonderful memories of originated in New York as a child?

My father worked in the Empire State building on the 87th floor. It was a real treatment to go there. I remember that he is talking about how someone, like a single dollar bet, sat on the edge of the window. Someone sat in his office there, the legs hanging on the edge of the 87th floor. I thought, “This is fun.”

Rachel Bergastein, author “author”Judy Genius: How Judy Bloom rewritten the childhood of all of us“