John Sayles at event of Casa de los babys (2003)
				
				
						 Caption: John Sayles at event of Casa de los babys (2003)
																																				
						Writer, Actor, Director
						Born: September 28, 1950
						Star sign: Libra
						Height: 6' 4" (1.93 m)
						Known for: Lone Star (1996), Piranha (1978), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), Eight Men Out (1988)
						Source: IMDB
						A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job. He wrote stories and submitted them to various magazines, and the Atlantic Monthly gave him the idea of publishing them in a novel--thus "Pride of the ...