# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sid-fleischman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:03:43.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sid-fleischman"
name: "Sid Fleischman"
slug: "sid-fleischman"
description: "Albert Sidney Fleischman was an American author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and nonfiction books about stage magic. His works for children are known for their humor, imagery, zesty plotting, and exploration of the byways of American history. He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain. For his career contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1994. 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. The Award annually recognizes a writer of humorous fiction for children or young adults. He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996)."
tagline: "American (1920–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sid_Fleischman_reading_to_kids_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-03-16"
deathDate: "2010-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.06
  momentum:             0.2112676056338028
  historical:           12.026208
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281520/"
    handle:    "nm0281520"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sidfleischman.com"
sources:
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    title: "Сід Флейшман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيد فلايشمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيد فلايشمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "سید فلیشمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Fleischman"
    title: "Sid Fleischman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Fleischman"
    title: "Sid Fleischman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "سید فلایشمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Sidney_Fleischman"
    title: "Albert Sidney Fleischman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Fleischman"
    title: "Sid Fleischman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "シド・フライシュマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Fleischman"
    title: "Sid Fleischman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%88%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Флейшман, Сид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Fleischman"
    title: "Sid Fleischman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1344495"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1090826"
    title: "Albert Sidney Fleischman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump