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He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain
March 17 has seen 108 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 45 BC – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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American author and screenwriter (born 1920)
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He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain
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In 2003, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators inaugurated the Sid Fleischman Humor Award in his honor, and made him the first recipient
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nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1994
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He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996).
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Albert Sidney Fleischman was an American author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and nonfiction books about stage magic
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