I decided to clear up the mystery and wrote a book just for them." Today he divides his time between writing films and children's books.įleischman says that when he knew very little about writing, he wrote very fast. Other fathers, they learned, left home in the morning and returned at the end of the day. 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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