![]() Sachs continued her activism later in life, fighting for public school integration and demonstrating against the Vietnam War. While living in New York, Sachs was active in the political organization American Youth for Democracy, which is where she met her future husband, sculptor Morris Sachs. Sachs wrote 40 books in total, between 19. By 1968, she had made enough money from her first four published novels to quit her librarian job and become a full-time writer. Sachs found a publisher for her book in 1964. Unable to sell her first novel, Amy Moves In, she set it aside and moved with her husband and children to San Francisco, California in 1961, taking a job at the Main Library. Sachs began focusing on her writing during a leave of absence from her library job in 1954. Sachs worked as a children's librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library while working toward her graduate degree. She earned a bachelor's degree from Hunter College and a master's in library science from Columbia University. Sachs was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx. Marilyn Sachs (Decem– December 28, 2016) was an American author of award-winning children's books. ![]()
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