Marilyn Sachs, author of over 35 books for children, was born in the Bronx on December 18th. Books brought her such comfort in childhood that she was determined to become a writer. Sachs graduated from Hunter College and received a Masters in Library Science at Columbia University. She worked as a children's librarian in the Brooklyn Public Library. Her first book, Amy Moves In, took ten years to get published. Today, Sachs lives and writes in San Francisco.