“The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever - they - have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must provide his best work” (qtd. good reads). Albert Sidney Fleischman, an American author who did most of his writing in San Diego, was in the fifth grade when he became influenced by magic. Even though Sid Fleischman failed to realize his dream of becoming a great magician, he created magic and made it the theme of all his books. During his lifetime, Fleischman won numerous awards such as the Newbery Award in 1987 and the Boston Globe – Horn Book Award in 1979. Unfortunately, Albert Sidney Fleischman passed away on March 17, 2010 in Santa Monica, California (Fox 1). Although Sid Fleischman was a prosperous and influential American author, he wrote many children's novels and plays about magic, such as The Whipping Boy and The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story. His magic would always be with his books and mystify the history of American literature. Albert Sidney Fleischman was born on March 16, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. In his memoir, The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life, Fleischman was influenced by the magic he saw and heard about when he was in fifth grade. For Fleischman magic was what he dealt with every day, sometimes presenting magic shows to children and sometimes writing about them in his novels. When he was a child his entire family moved to San Diego, and that place is where he spent much of his childhood and writing. During World War II San Diego served as a nesting site for the US Navy (Fleischman Abracadabra 23). Sailors often came to his father's shop to purchase various necessities for a sailor. Neighboring his fa...... middle of paper ......r read more.March 14, 2014Works Cited Fleischman, Sid. The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story. New York: Greenwillow, 1995. Print.Fleischman, Sid. The Abracadabra Kid: The Life of a Writer. New York: Greenwillow, 1996. Print.Fleischman, Sid. The Whip. New York: Greenwillow, 1986. Print.Fox, Margalit. “Sid Fleischman, children's book author, dies at 90.” The New York Times. The New York Times, March 24, 2010. Web. March 1, 2014. Mudd, Steve. "Albert Sidney Fleischman." Albert Sidney Fleischman. Children's Literature Network, Web. February 29, 2014. McLellan, Dennis. "Sid Fleischman Dies at 90; Newbery Medal-Winning Children's Writer." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2010. Web. February 23, 2014. "Sid Fleischman Quotes." Goodreads. Network. February 17, 2014. "Sid Fleischman." School teachers. Network. February 27, 2014. "Sid Fleischman." Sid Fleischmann. Network. February 20. 2014.