![]() ![]() ![]() They didn't understand what I did for a living. "My young children led me into writing children's books. ![]() One of Fleischman's novels was bought for a major motion picture, and he was offered a contract to write the screenplay. When the paper folded in 1950, he turned to fiction writing. Naval Reserve, he finished college and worked as a reporter on the San Diego Daily Journal. I just didn't know it."Īfter wartime service with the U.S. Just out of high school, he traveled widely in vaudeville and with a midnight ghost-and-goblin show. Born in Brooklyn, he grew up in San Diego during the Great Depression and decided in the fifth grade to become a magician. "What went wrong?"īut his childhood was not so typical after all. "I had a childhood much like everyone else's," he writes in his newly published autobiography, The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life. Newbery Award-winning author of The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman is surprised that he grew up to be a writer. ![]()
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