Ua hanauʻiaʻo Aviʻo Edward Irving Wortis i ka makahiki 1937 ma Brooklyn, Niu Ioka iā Iosepa Wortis, he kahu kilokilo, aʻo Helen Wortis, he mea hana kanaka. I ka makahiki o kona makahiki, ua kapaʻia kona kaikuahine māhoeʻo'Avi, aʻo ka inoa i kapaʻia. ʻO nā kupuna kāneʻelua o'Avi he mau mea kākau moʻolelo, a he kupuna wahine hoʻokahi kupuna. Hoʻomanaʻoʻo ia i ka heluheluʻana o kona makuahine iā ia a me kona kaikuaʻana i nā pō a pau, a hele i ka hale waihona puke i nā Pōʻalima. Ua lawe nā mākua o Avi iā ia mai kahi kula kiʻekiʻeʻo Stuyvesant iā Elizabeth Irwin High School, he kula liʻiliʻi liʻiliʻi, no ka mea, ua loaʻa iā ia kahi maʻi aʻo e kapaʻia he dysgraphia, aʻo ia ka mea i hoʻohuli ai i kāna mau'ōlelo.
Ma ke kula kiʻekiʻeʻo Elizabeth Irwin, ua aʻoʻo ia me kahi kahu,ʻo Ella Ratner, ka mea āna i'ōlelo ai no ka pono o kāna kākauʻana. Ua paʻaʻo'Avi i kona wā'ōpiopio e lilo i mea kākau a ua ho'āʻo muaʻo ia e lilo i mea pāʻani a hoʻomaka i kākau no nā'ōpio ma hope o ka hānauʻana o kāna keikiʻo Shaun.
Ka Aʻo o Avi
ʻO ka puke mua o Avi, "Nā mea i hanaʻia i kekahi mau manawa," ua paʻiʻia i 1970, a hiki i kēia lā, ua hoʻopukaʻo ia i 75 mau puke. No nā makahiki he nui, hanaʻo ia i ka manawa piha e like me ke kahu hale waihona puke. Ua hoʻomakaʻo ia ma ka Hale Waihona Puke o ka Moku'āinaʻo New York a laila ua loaʻaʻo ia i kahiʻoihana ma ke Kulanuiʻo Trenton State ma New Jersey. Nohoʻo Avi ma nā Maula Pōhaku o Colorado me kāna wahineʻo Linda Cruise Wright Denver.
Nā puke a me nā hōʻailona
ʻO'Avi he mea kākau nui loa a kaulana. Ua kākauʻo ia i nā puke no nā hui likeʻole a me nāʻano likeʻole me ka mea heluhelu mua; nā kiʻi kiʻi; nā puke'ōpio'ōpio; hiʻona; manaʻoʻiʻo; nā moʻolelo kararehe; moʻolelo moʻokalaleo; nā mea kākau moʻolelo, a me nā mea pohihihi.
Ua waiwai nuiʻo ia i ka loaʻaʻana o nā hōʻailona no nā'ōpiopio'ōpio. E hoʻopaʻa i kekahi mau hiʻohiʻona, "The Fighting Ground," e pili ana i ka Revolutionary War, i lanakila i ka makana Scott Scott i 1984 a me kekahi puke moʻolelo hou, "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" (1990), a lanakila i ka Newbery Award. i ka makanaʻo Boston Globe-Horn Book.
Ua lanakilaʻo ia i ka Medal Newbery no "Crispin: Cross of Lead," i puka mai i ka makahiki 2002.
Ka mea e hiki iā mākou ke aʻo mai iā Avi
ʻO'Avi he hiʻohiʻona hiʻohiʻona me ka hoʻomanawanui a me ke aloha, hiki iāʻoe ke hana i kekahi mea. Ua liloʻo Avi i mea kaulana i kākauʻia ma kona hemahema aʻaʻole loaʻo ia i hoʻokuʻu iā ia i kāna mau paleʻoihana. No kēia kumu, makemakeʻo Avi e hele i nā kula a lawe mai i kāna mau puke i kākauʻia i mea e hiki ai i nā haumāna me ke kino kīnā keʻike he mea hewaʻole kāna.
Avi ma ke kākau
"Ke manaʻo nei wau e liloʻoe i mea kākau ma ka manawa e ho'ōki aiʻoe i kākau noʻoe iho a iʻole kāu mau kumu a hoʻomaka e noʻonoʻo i nā mea heluhelu e hoʻopau ana i koʻu manaʻo e hana pēlā i koʻu wā i ke kula kiʻekiʻe."
(Mai ka pūnaeweleʻo'Avi.)
"Ua hauʻoli wau i ke kākauʻana a he paʻakikī, akā, he mea paʻakikī kēlā me kēia e kākau maikaʻi.
(Mai ka hālāwai ninaninau i ka makahiki 1996).
Nā mea hou aku no'Avi
Ināʻikeʻoe i ka moʻolelo o kēia mea kākau a hoʻonāukiuki a makemakeʻoe e aʻo hou aku iā ia,ʻo ka pūnaeweleʻo Avi kahi punahele maikaʻi loa o kaʻike.