- Both his parents were Jewish immigrants; his father, Samuel Juster, was born in Romania and his mother, Minnie Silberman, was of Polish Jewish descent.
- He had a tendency for jokes and pranks.
- He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and studied city planning at the University of Liverpool in England.
- Served in the United States Navy for three years and was stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- His book "The Hello Goodbye Window" won the Caldecott Medal.
- His book "The Phantom Tollbooth" won the George C. Stone Centre for Children's Books Award.
- Between 1970-1992 he taught architecture and planning at the Pratt Institute in New York and was the professor of design at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
- Children's author best known for his books "The Phantom Tollbooth" and "The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics." He also wrote "Alberic the Wise," "Otter Nonsense," "As: A Surfeit of Similes" and "The Hello Goodbye Window.".
- Juster enlisted in the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy in 1954, and rose to the rank of lieutenant junior grade.
- Although Juster enjoyed writing, his architectural career remained his primary emphasis.
- Juster co-founded a small architectural firm, Juster Pope Associates, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1970. The firm was renamed Juster Pope Frazier after Jack Frazier joined the firm in 1978.
- While serving in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, he made up a non-existent military publication called the Naval News Service as a scheme to request interviews with attractive women. It worked so amazingly well that a neighbor asked to come along as his assistant.
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