# Sandy Landsman

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{{short description|American writer}}
{{Infobox writer
| name           = Sandy Landsman
| birth_date     = 
| birth_place    = [Great Neck, New York](/source/Great_Neck%2C_New_York), U.S.
| occupation     = Children's book author, entertainer
| education      = [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) (English)
| notable_works  = ''The Gadget Factor'' (1984), ''Castaways on Chimp Island'' (1986)
| years_active   = 1980s–present
}}

'''Sandy Landsman''' is a children's book author.  He was born in [Great Neck, New York](/source/Great_Neck%2C_New_York).<ref name="flap">{{cite book|title=The Gadget Factor|last=Landsman|first=Sandy|year=1984|publisher=McClelland & Stewart, ltd.|isbn=9780689310140|page=back inside flap|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/gadgetfactor00land}}</ref>  He moved to the city to attend [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University), where he majored in English.<ref name="flap"/> During his senior year, he began entertaining at children's parties as a musical clown.<ref name="flap"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rodgers Whetsell|first1=Anne|date=December 19, 1977|title=The Children's-Party Line|journal=New York}}</ref>  This became a career for him, along with a cable children's show which he wrote and starred in.<ref name="flap"/>  He is the author of the children's books [The Gadget Factor](/source/The_Gadget_Factor) (1984),<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.librarything.com/work/2393667|title=The Gadget Factor|publisher=LibraryThing|access-date=18 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Sandy_Landsman|title=Sandy Landsman-Summary Bibliography|date=2006-04-24|work=Internet Speculative Fiction Database|access-date=18 August 2010}}</ref> and [Castaways on Chimp Island](/source/Castaways_on_Chimp_Island) (1986).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pw.org/content/sandy_landsman_1|title=Sandy Landsman|date=28 May 1981 |publisher=Poets & Writers|access-date=18 August 2010}}.</ref>

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