Sandy Landsman is a children's book author. He was born in
Great Neck, New York
Great Neck is a region on Long Island, New York, that covers a peninsula on the North Shore (Long Island), North Shore and includes nine villages, among them Great Neck (village), New York, Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, New York, Great Neck Es ...
.
He moved to the city to attend
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
, where he majored in English.
During his senior year, he began entertaining at children's parties as a musical clown.
This became a career for him, along with a cable children's show which he wrote and starred in.
He is the author of the children's books
The Gadget Factor (1984), and
Castaways on Chimp Island (1986).
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References
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American clowns
American children's writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)