Sidney Offit, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American writer
Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1928
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Sidney Offit
- Sidney Offit (born October 13, 1928) is an American writer.
- He is perhaps best known as the author of various children's books during the 1960s, including The Adventures of Homer Fink, illustrated by Paul Galdone.
- In 1971, Boys' Life wrote that "more than a few of BL's millions of readers must be among the millions who know Mr.
- Offit's books for young readers: The Adventures of Homer Fink, Soupbone, Cadet Attack, and Cadet Quarterback." Offit is currently the President of the Authors Guild Foundation, and teaches fiction writing at The New School, for which he was recognized in 2001 with a Distinguished Teaching Award.
- For decades, he has been a member of both the Century Association and PEN American Center, serving a number of terms on the latter's Board of Trustees.
- For 32 years, he was also curator of the George Polk Awards in Journalism.As a fixture of the New York literary scene during latter half of the 20th century, Offit befriended many of the era's most-celebrated writers, including Robert Caro, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.
- Offit, who appears at the "clambake" in Vonnegut's semi-autobiographical novel Timequake, has reminisced about their close friendship in various fora, and edited the Library of America's collection of the late author's novels and short stories.
- He also provided the foreword to Look at the Birdie, a volume of fourteen previously unpublished short stories by Vonnegut. Offit himself is the author of two novels, ten books for younger readers, and two memoirs.
- His latest book, Friends, Writers and Other Countrymen: A Memoir, describes his encounters with figures like H.
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- Mencken, Robert Frost, Che Guevara, and Truman Capote.
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