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Sheldon Allan Silverstein (/ ˈ s ɪ l v ər s t iː n /; [1] September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer, cartoonist, songwriter, and musician. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Silverstein briefly attended university before being drafted into the United States Army.
Silverstein had difficulty finding a publisher for The Giving Tree. [1] [2] An editor at Simon & Schuster rejected the book's manuscript because he felt that it was "too sad" for children and "too simple" for adults. [1] [2] Tomi Ungerer encouraged Silverstein to approach Ursula Nordstrom, who was a publisher with Harper & Row. [1]
The Mermaid (Shel Silverstein song) O. One's on the Way; Q. Queen of the Silver Dollar; S. Sylvia's Mother; U. The Unicorn (song) W. Wrong Ideas
Silverstein was raised in Oakland, California, in a Jewish family, [1] [2] the eldest of two children. [3] His mother was a psychoanalyst and his father an architect. [3] He attended Wesleyan University [4] where he majored in English, and later earned an M.A. in English from Hollins University [3] and then an M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin's Michener Center for Writers [5] in ...
- Shel Silverstein By Eric Sandler I can still recall the sing-song verses of "A Giraffe And A Half" from memory without having read the book in over ten years. Moreover, you'd be hard-pressed to ...
Amy Jill Silverstein (née Shorin; June 3, 1963 – May 5, 2023) was an American writer. The author of the memoirs Sick Girl and My Glory Was I Had Such Friends , in addition to magazine articles and essays, she had two heart transplants.
A Light in the Attic is a book of poems by American poet, writer, and musician Shel Silverstein. The book consists of 135 poems accompanied by illustrations also created by Silverstein. [ 1 ] It was first published by Harper & Row Junior Books in 1981 and was a bestseller for months after its publication, [ 2 ] but it has also been the subject ...
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...