Avi anabadwa Edward Irving Wortis mu 1937 ku Brooklyn, New York kwa Joseph Wortis, katswiri wa zamaganizo, ndi Helen Wortis, wogwira nawo ntchito. Pamene anali ndi chaka chimodzi, mphasa yake inamutcha dzina lakuti Avi, ndipo dzina lake limatchulidwa. Awiri a agogo ake a Avi anali olemba, ndipo agogo aakazi anali playwright. Akukumbukira amayi ake akumuwerengera iye ndi mlongo wake usiku uliwonse, ndikupita ku laibulale ya anthu Lamlungu. Makolo a Avi anamuchotsa ku Stuyvesant High School kupita ku Elizabeth Irwin High School, sukulu yaing'ono, chifukwa anali ndi vuto la kuphunzira lotchedwa dysgraphia, zomwe zinamupangitsa kuti asinthe kapena kusokoneza mawu.
Pa Elizabeth Irwin High School anaphunzira ndi wophunzitsa, Ella Ratner, yemwe amamutchula kuti akulemba bwino. Avi adatsimikiziridwa ali wamng'ono kuti akhale mlembi ndipo adayeseratu kukhala wochita masewerawa ndipo anayamba kulembera achinyamata achinyamata atatha kubadwa mwana wake Shaun.
Ntchito ya Avi
Buku loyamba la Avi, "Zochitika Nthaŵi Zina," linafalitsidwa mu 1970, ndipo mpaka pano, wasindikiza mabuku 75. Kwa zaka zambiri iye ankagwira ntchito nthawi zonse monga woyang'anira mabuku. Anayamba ku Library ya New York ndipo adagwira ntchito ku Trenton State College ku New Jersey. Avi amakhala mu Rocky Mountains of Colorado ndi mkazi wake, Linda Cruise Wright Denver.
Mabuku ndi Mphoto
Avi ndi wolemba kwambiri komanso wolemba bwino kwambiri. Walembera mabuku a magulu osiyanasiyana komanso mitundu yosiyanasiyana kuphatikizapo owerenga oyambirira; zojambulajambula; mabuku achikulire achinyamata; chithunzi; chiwonetsero; zinyama; chithunzi; mafilimu ojambula zithunzi, ndi zinsinsi.
Iye wapindulanso kwambiri popeza mphoto kwa mabuku a achinyamata. Kulemba zitsanzo zingapo, "Kulimbana ndi Nkhondo," za nkhondo ya Revolutionary, yomwe inapambana mphoto ya Scott O'Dell mu 1984 ndi buku lina la mbiri yakale, "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" (1990), lomwe linapambana mphoto ya Newbery ndi Mphotho ya Boston Globe-Horn Book.
Anagonjetsanso Medal Newbery ya "Crispin: Cross of Lead," yomwe inatuluka mu 2002.
Zimene tingaphunzire kuchokera ku Avi
Avi ndi chitsanzo chowala kuti ndi chipiriro ndi chilakolako, mukhoza kuchita chilichonse. Avi anakhala wolemba mbiri wotchuka ngakhale kuti anali wolumala ndipo sanalole kuti maphunziro ake am'lepheretse. Pachifukwachi, Avi amasangalala kupita ku sukulu ndikubweretsa mipukutu yake yopanga kuti ophunzira omwe ali ndi zolepheretsa kuphunzira athe kuona kuti nayenso amachititsa zinthu zolakwika.
Avi pa Kulemba
"Ndikuganiza kuti mumakhala mlembi mukasiya kulemba nokha kapena aphunzitsi anu ndikuyamba kuganiza za owerenga. Ndinapanga maganizo anga kuti ndichite zimenezi ndili mkulu wa sekondale."
(Kuchokera pa tsamba la Avi.)
"Ndimasangalala kulembera ndipo ndi zovuta, koma ndizovuta kuti aliyense alembere bwino. Ndiyenera kulembanso mobwerezabwereza kuti nthawi zambiri zimanditengera chaka kuti ndilembe buku."
(Kuchokera pa kuyankhulana kwa 1996.)
Zambiri Za Avi
Mukapeza nkhani ya wolembayi ndikulimbikitsanso kuphunzira zambiri za iye, webusaiti ya Avi ndi njira yabwino kwambiri yopezera zambiri pa iye.