![]() ![]() She and her husband, Morris, who were married for 70 years, met in 1946 through the progressive group American Youth for Democracy. She attended Hunter College in New York and later studied library science at Columbia University. Sachs was born in 1927 into a Jewish family in the Bronx section of New York. ![]() “Crybabies tend to be sensitive, which is also a plus for writers.” “If you are a coward, you will probably spend more time at the library than you would ordinarily, and if you tell lies, it just shows that you have an imagination, even if others don’t always appreciate it,” she wrote. On her website, she wrote that the traits children are often bullied for are “promising qualities for future writers.” “Small, skinny and a crybaby, I was an easy prey for the local bullies,” she wrote on her website. She often said that she turned to public libraries, and to the reading and writing of fiction, as an escape from bullying. Sachs was known for tackling serious topics - such as depression, divorce, body image and bullying - long before such matters were common fodder for authors of young adult novels. ![]()
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