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Avi (author)
American author of children's books
Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pen nameAvi,[1][2] is an American author of young adult and children's literature.
He is a winner of the Newbery Medal and twice one of the runners-up (Newbery Honor).
Biography
Avi and his twin sister were born in Brooklyn, New York to Joseph Wortis, an American-Jewishpsychiatrist of Russian-Jewish and Alsatian-Jewish descent, and Helen Wortis, a social worker.
When he was one year old, his sister gave him the nickname "Avi".[3] Both Avi's grandfathers were writers, and one grandmother was a playwright. In interviews, he recalled his mother reading to him and his sister every night, and going to the public library on Fridays.
Avi awardsHe is also the first cousin of the Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin.
Avi's parents transferred him from Stuyvesant High School to Elisabeth Irwin High School, a smaller private school. At his new
