Teaching Veronica Ganz by Marilyn Sachs
Marilyn Sachs was born December 18, 1927 in New York, New York. She grew up in a Jewish family in a poor neighborhood in New York. Sachs went to Hunter College, where she met her future husband, a sculptor. They married in 1947, and had two children. Sachs started work in the Brooklyn Public Library and returned to the university to obtain a degree in library sciences. In 1954, she took a half-year leave and wrote her first book. Meanwhile she had moved her family to San Francisco, where her time was divided between the youth department of the public library, her children and her writing. When her books were successfully published, she devoted her time entirely to writing. Her backlist of writing awards includes the New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year ('87), Parent's Choice Award ('87), New York Public Library 100 Titles for Sharing ('83) and her books fill the shelves of well-read children.
Most of Marilyn Sachs books are based loosely on her own youth. The books take place frequently in a Jewish environment and the protagonists are town children. Sometimes the protagonists from the one book emerge as another person in another book. Her books are frequently about children who are outcast and are not accepted by their intelligence or their appearance by the others. For this reason they escape in their fantasies. In spite of the problems the tale with humor is told.
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