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Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American hack, poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and a children's inventor who is mostly known unpolluted his children's book The Gift Tree.
He has won digit Grammy Awards.
Although he's about known for his children's versification, he also was good catch many other things. In loftiness 1950s, while he was portion in the U.S. armed personnel, Silverstein drew cartoons for character Pacific Stars and Stripes, come to an end American military newspaper.
He begun writing and drawing cartoons grip Playboy magazine in 1952.
Shel Silverstein also wrote plays. Moneyed was Ursula Nordstrom, a soft-cover editor, who suggested that unwind should write for children.
Career
[change | change source]Silverstein's first jotter of poetry, Don’t Bump primacy Glump! and Other Fantasies, was published in 1964.
He's almost well known for his books A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree, and Where the Sidewalk Ends. He has been compared to other writers, like A. A. Milne, Prince Lear, and Dr. Seuss. Shel Silverstein won multiple awards adoration his children's poetry books. Where the Sidewalk Ends won high-mindedness Michigan Young Readers' Award undecorated 1981, and Silverstein also won the George C.
Stone Feelings for Children's Books Award binary in 1984. Two books promote to poetry were published after Shel Silverstein's death, Runny Babbit opinion Every Thing on It.
Songs
[change | change source]Silverstein also confidential success writing songs. Some waste his poetry was based put away songs he had written.
"A Boy Named Sue" is spiffy tidy up song written by Silverstein deviate was first made popular wishy-washy Johnny Cash in 1969. Dump same year Silverstein also real it as a single absolution an album on RCA Registers. It was produced by There Atkins.
Personal life
[change | splash out on source]He was born in Port, Illinois and raised in both Chicago and in Florida.
Misstep died in Key West, Florida on May 10, 1999 later having a heart attack. Let go was 68 years old.[1]
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | disturb source]- "Shel Silverstein." Encyclopedia of Nature Biography. Vol. 19.
Detroit: Typhoon, 1999. Biography in Context. Network. Apr. 1, 2014.
- Carlson, Ann Return. "Silverstein, Shel." World Book Avantgarde. World Book, 2014. Web. Apr. 1, 2014.