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Sid Fleischman (Avron Zalmon Fleischman) was born on 16 March, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an American writer. Discover Sid Fleischman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

Popular As Avron Zalmon Fleischman
Occupation Writer, magician
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 16 March, 1920
Birthday 16 March
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Date of death 2010
Died Place Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Betty Taylor (d. 1993)

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1920

Albert Sidney Fleischman (born Avron Zalmon Fleischman; March 16, 1920 – March 17, 2010) was an American author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and nonfiction books about stage magic.

His works for children are known for their humor, imagery, zesty plotting, and exploration of the byways of American history.

Fleischman was born Avron Zalmon Fleischman in Brooklyn, New York in 1920.

His parents were Ukrainian Jews and moved the family to San Diego, California when Fleischman was two years old.

As a youngster, he beheld his first stage magic performance, launching a lifelong fascination that would find a place in many of his books.

He learned magic from library books and the local fraternity of magicians, inventing new tricks along the way.

He began performing professionally while still in high school, touring California with his friend Buddy Ryan, performing in nightclubs, and traveling the country with the Francisco Spook Show during the last days of vaudeville.

1941

In 1941 Fleischman joined the U.S. Navy Reserve.

He served as a Yeoman aboard the destroyer escort USS Albert T. Harris with service near the Philippines, Borneo, and China.

1946

until 1946.

1949

He graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1949.

At 19, Fleischman published his first book, Between Cocktails, a collection of magic tricks using paper matches.

His college career at San Diego State College was interrupted by World War II, during which he served on a destroyer escort in the Pacific.

After graduating with a degree in English, he worked as a reporter for the short-lived San Diego Daily Journal, covering everything from crime scenes to the political beat.

After the newspaper folded, he turned to fiction.

Drawing on his reporting experiences, his knowledge of magic, and his tour of the Pacific, he produced a series of novels of intrigue and adventure over the next 15 years, many set in the Far East.

Nearly all have been recently reprinted in two-books-in-one format by Stark House Press.

When one of them—Blood Alley—caught the eye of director William Wellman, he hired Fleischman to adapt it to the screen.

This both led to a move to Santa Monica, California, where Fleischman lived the rest of his life, and began a decades-long involvement with Hollywood.

After Blood Alley was filmed, starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall, Wellman used Fleischman on several other projects, including Lafayette Escadrille, based on Wellman's own experiences as a World War I pilot.

Fleischman adapted his own novel Yellowleg for the screen, released as The Deadly Companions, the director Sam Peckinpah's first feature.

Fleischman later worked on several projects with Kirk Douglas, including Scalawag.

For children, he wrote teleplays for "The Bloodhound Gang" segments of the educational 3–2–1 Contact series, as well as the screenplay of The Whipping Boy (released as Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy).

1962

Using his three children as an audience for the first time, Fleischman wrote Mr. Mysterious & Company (1962), the adventures of a traveling magician's family in the old West.

It was the first of many children's books that would draw on his background in magic and his interest in history.

By the Great Horn Spoon! mined the California Gold Rush and was turned into the movie The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin.

1965

The Ghost in the Noonday Sun, Chancy and the Grand Rascal, Jingo Django, and Humbug Mountain (1965 to 1978) spun fiction from the facts of East Coast pirates, Ohio River rafting, American Gypsies, and traveling printers.

His series of books about Josh McBroom and his family's amazing one-acre farm made use of American tall tales.

Later works looked farther afield, from England (The Whipping Boy) to Asia (The White Elephant) to Mexico (The Dream Stealer).

1975

For young magicians, he wrote Mr. Mysterious's Secrets of Magic (1975).

1987

He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain.

1993

Fleischman and his wife Betty, who died in 1993, had three children.

His son Paul Fleischman followed him into the world of children's books.

They are the only parent and child who've both won the Newbery Medal, the venerable American Library Association award that annually recognizes the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".

Fleischman maintained an interest in magic all his life, hosting monthly meetings of Los Angeles magicians at his home, publishing occasional articles in magic journals, and summing up what he had learned in The Charlatan's Handbook (1993).

1994

For his career contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1994.

1996

He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996).

Finding nonfiction to his liking after completing his autobiography, The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996), Fleischman went on to produce biographies of Harry Houdini, Mark Twain, and Charlie Chaplin.

2003

In 2003, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators inaugurated the Sid Fleischman Humor Award in his honor, and made him the first recipient.

The Award annually recognizes a writer of humorous fiction for children or young adults.