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American poet, cartoonist, and writer (1930–1999)

Shel Silverstein
Silverstein c.  1964 as featured on the back cover of The Giving Tree
Born	Sheldon Allan Silverstein (1930-09-25)September 25, 1930 Chicago, Illinois, U.South.
Died	May 10, 1999(1999-05-ten) (aged 68) Primal West, Florida, U.Southward.
Resting place	Westlawn Cemetery Norridge, Illinois, U.Due south.
Occupation	Writer poet cartoonist songwriter playwright
Genre	Children'due south fiction nighttime comedy
Children	2
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Sheldon Allan Silverstein (;^[1] September 25, 1930 – May ten, 1999) was an American author, poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and playwright. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Silverstein briefly attended academy before beingness drafted into the The states Regular army. Though perhaps best known for his children'south books, Silverstein did not limit his audience to children. During his rise to prominence in the 1950s, his illustrations were published in diverse newspapers and magazines, notably the developed-oriented Playboy. He besides wrote a satirical, adult-oriented alphabet book, Uncle Shelby'due south ABZ Book, nether the stylized name "Uncle Shelby", which he used as an occasional pen proper name.

Equally a children's author, some of his most acclaimed works include The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and A Light in the Attic. His works have been translated into more than 47 languages and have sold more than xx million copies.^[2] As a songwriter, Silverstein wrote the 1969 Johnny Cash track "A Male child Named Sue", which peaked at number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. His songs accept been recorded and popularized by a broad range of other acts including Tompall Glaser, The Irish Rovers and Dr. Hook & the Medicine Evidence. He was the recipient of two Grammy Awards too as nominations at the Golden Globe Awards and University Awards.

Though never married, Silverstein fathered two children, Shoshanna Hashemite kingdom of jordan Hastings (June 30, 1970 – April 24, 1982) and Matthew De Ver (built-in Nov 10, 1984). Shoshanna died of an aneurysm at age 11, and the volume A Light in the Attic is dedicated in her memory. Silverstein died at his domicile in Key Westward, Florida, of a centre attack on May ten, 1999, at the historic period of 68.

Early life [edit]

Sheldon Allan Silverstein was built-in into a Jewish family in Chicago on September 25, 1930.^[3] He grew up in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, where he attended Roosevelt High Schoolhouse. He then attended the University of Illinois, from which he was expelled. He enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, which he was attending when he was drafted into the U.South. Regular army; he served in Japan and Korea.^{[4] [five]}

Career [edit]

Cartoons [edit]

Silverstein's Playboy travelogues, nerveless in 2007

Silverstein began cartoon at age seven by tracing the works of Al Capp.^[6] He told Publishers Weekly: "When I was a kid—12 to 14, I'd much rather have been a proficient baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't desire me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. I was also lucky that I didn't have anybody to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style; I was creating earlier I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Toll and a Steinberg. I never saw their work 'til I was around thirty. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into piece of work, and it was more than important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather brand love, merely the piece of work has get a habit."^[7]

He was first published in the Roosevelt Torch, a pupil paper at Roosevelt University, where he studied English language afterward leaving the Art Establish. During his fourth dimension in the military, his cartoons were published in Pacific Stars and Stripes, where he had originally been assigned to practice layouts and paste up. His offset book Take 10, a compilation of his armed services Take Ten cartoon serial, was published by Pacific Stars and Stripes in 1955. He later said his time in college was a waste and would take been better spent traveling around the world coming together people.^[8]

Afterward returning to Chicago, Silverstein began submitting cartoons to magazines while besides selling hot dogs at Chicago ballparks. His cartoons began appearing in Look, Sports Illustrated and This Week.^[9]

Mass-marketplace paperback readers across America were introduced to Silverstein in 1956 when Take Ten was reprinted by Ballantine Books as Catch Your Socks!

In 1957, Silverstein became one of the leading cartoonists in Playboy, which sent him effectually the globe to create an illustrated travel periodical with reports from far-flung locales. During the 1950s and 1960s, he produced 23 installments chosen "Shel Silverstein Visits..." as a feature for Playboy. Employing a sketchbook format with typewriter-styled captions, he documented his own experiences at such locations as a New Jersey naturist community, the Chicago White Sox training army camp, San Francisco'due south Haight-Ashbury, Fire Isle, Mexico, London, Paris, Spain and Africa. In a Swiss hamlet, he drew himself complaining, "I'll give them xv more than minutes, and if nobody yodels, I'1000 going back to the hotel." These illustrated travel essays were collected past the publisher Fireside in Playboy's Silverstein Effectually the Globe, published in 2007 with a foreword past Hugh Hefner and an introduction by music journalist Mitch Myers.^[x]

In a similar vein were his illustrations for John Sack'southward Report from Practically Nowhere (1959), a collection of humorous travel vignettes previously actualization in Playboy and other magazines.^[xi]

"Now here'south my plan..." [edit]

"At present here'due south my programme...", Silverstein'south best known cartoon of the 1950s, became the title of his 1960 cartoon drove

A cartoon he fabricated during the 1950s was featured on the cover of his next cartoon collection, titled Now Here's My Program: A Volume of Futilities, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 1960. Silverstein biographer Lisa Rogak wrote:

The drawing on the cover that provides the book's title would turn out to be one of his most famous and often-cited cartoons. In the cartoon, two prisoners are chained to the wall of a prison prison cell. Both their hands and anxiety are shackled. One says to the other, "Now here's my plan." Silverstein was both fascinated and distressed by the amount of analysis and commentary that almost immediately began to swirl around the cartoon. "A lot of people said it was a very pessimistic drawing, which I don't recollect information technology is at all," he said. "There'due south a lot of hope even in a hopeless situation. They analyze information technology and question it. I did this cartoon considering I had an thought nigh a funny situation nigh 2 guys."^[2]

Silverstein'south cartoons appeared in issues of Playboy from 1957 through the mid-1970s, and one of his Playboy features was expanded into Uncle Shelby'south ABZ Book (Simon & Schuster, 1961), his starting time volume of new, original material for adults.

Music [edit]

Silverstein studied briefly at Chicago Higher of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. His musical output included a large catalog of songs; a number of them were hits for other artists, most notably the rock group Dr. Claw & the Medicine Bear witness.^[10] He wrote Tompall Glaser'due south highest-charting solo single "Put Another Log on the Fire", "One'south on the Way" and "Hey Loretta" (both hits for Loretta Lynn, in 1971 and 1973 respectively), and "25 Minutes to Get", sung by Johnny Greenbacks, about a homo on death row with each line counting down one minute closer. Silverstein also wrote Cash'due south biggest hit, "A Male child Named Sue" as well as "The Unicorn", first recorded by Silverstein in 1962 but ameliorate known in its version by The Irish Rovers. Other songs co-written by Silverstein include "The Taker" written with Kris Kristofferson and recorded by Waylon Jennings, and a sequel to "A Boy Named Sue" titled "Father of a Male child Named Sue", which is less known, simply he performed the song on tv set on The Johnny Cash Show. He also penned a bottom known song titled "F**yard 'em."^{[12] [13]}

He wrote the lyrics and music for most of the Dr. Claw & the Medicine Show songs on their outset few albums, including "The Cover of "Rolling Stone"", "Freakin' at the Freakers' Ball," "Sylvia's Mother", "The Things I Didn't Say" and "Don't Give a Dose to the One Y'all Love Nigh".^[10] He wrote many of the songs performed by Bobby Bare, including "Rosalie'south Proficient Eats Café", "The Mermaid", "The Winner", "Warm and Gratuitous", and "Tequila Sheila". He co-wrote with Baxter Taylor "Marie Laveau". The third anthology by Tompall Glaser contained eight songs past Silverstein and three by Silverstein and others.

Silverstein's "The Carol of Lucy Jordan", first recorded by Dr. Claw in 1975, was re-recorded by Marianne Faithfull (1979), Belinda Carlisle (1996), and Bobby Bare (2005) and later featured in the films Montenegro and Thelma & Louise. "Queen of the Silverish Dollar" was starting time recorded past Dr. Claw on their 1972 album Sloppy Seconds, and later past Doyle Holly (on his 1973 album Doyle Holly), Emmylou Harris (on her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky) and Dave & Saccharide (on their 1976 anthology Dave & Carbohydrate).

Silverstein composed original music for several films and displayed a musical versatility in these projects, playing guitar, pianoforte, saxophone and trombone. He wrote "In the Hills of Shiloh", a poignant song about the aftermath of the American Civil State of war, recorded by The New Christy Minstrels, Judy Collins, Bobby Bare, and others. The soundtrack of the 1970 film Ned Kelly features Silverstein songs performed by Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and others.^[9] He also co-wrote with Waylon the song 'A Long Time Agone'.

In addition, Silverstein wrote "Hey Nelly Nelly", a 1960s-era folk song recorded by Judy Collins.^[xiv]

Silverstein had a popular post-obit on Dr. Demento's radio bear witness. Among his meliorate-known comedy songs were "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (Would Non Take the Garbage Out)", "The Smoke-Off" (a tale of a contest to determine who could roll—or smoke—marijuana joints faster), "I Got Stoned and I Missed It" and "Stacy Chocolate-brown Got Two." He wrote "The Father of a Boy Named Sue", in which he tells the story from the original vocal from the father's betoken of view, and the 1962 song "Boa Constrictor", sung by a person who is being swallowed by a snake (recorded by the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary) besides every bit recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1966 album Everybody Loves a Nut.

One of the latter musical projects Silverstein completed in his lifetime was Old Dogs, a 1998 anthology with songs almost getting quondam, all of which Silverstein wrote or co-wrote.^[15]

A longtime friend of vocalizer-songwriter Pat Dailey, Silverstein collaborated with him on the posthumously released Underwater Land album (2002). It contains 17 children'due south songs written and produced by Silverstein and sung by Dailey (with Silverstein joining him on a few tracks). The album features art by Silverstein.^[16]

He was a friend of Chicago songwriter Steve Goodman, for whom he wrote the final verse of "What Have You lot Washed For Me Lately?" (refusing a songwriting credit for his contribution).

In 2010, Bobby Bare and his son Bobby Bare Jr produced a CD called Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein which was released on Sugar Colina Records. Other artists recording Silverstein songs include the Brothers Four, Andrew Bird, My Forenoon Jacket and Bobby Blank Jr.^{[17] [18]}

Theater [edit]

In Jan 1959, Look, Charlie: A Short History of the Pratfall was a chaotic off-Broadway one-act staged by Silverstein, Jean Shepherd and Herb Gardner at New York's Orpheum Theatre on 2d Artery in the Lower East Side.^[nineteen] Silverstein went on to write more than 100 comedy plays. The Lady or the Tiger Testify (1981) and Call back Crazy Zelda? (1984) were produced in New York.^[twenty] The Devil and Billy Markham, published in Playboy in 1979, was later adapted into a solo comedy play that debuted on a double bill with Mamet'due south Bobby Gould in Hell (1989) with Dr. Hook vocaliser Dennis Locorriere narrating.^[21] In 1990, Silverstein's one-human activity modernized version of Hamlet starred Melvin Van Peebles playing all the roles.^[22] Karen Kohlhaas directed An Developed Evening of Shel Silverstein, produced by New York's Atlantic Theater Company in September 2001 with a variety of short sketches:^[23]

• "One Lawn tennis Shoe"—Harvey claims his wife is condign a purse lady.
• "Bus Stop"—Irwin stands on a corner with a "motorcoach stop" sign.
• "Going Once"—A woman auctions herself.
• "The Best Daddy"—Lisa's daddy shot the pony he got for her birthday.
• "The Lifeboat is Sinking"—Jen and Sherwin play a game of Who-Would-You-Save-If—the family unit was drowning.
• "Smiling"—Bender plans to punish the man responsible for the phrase "Take a nice twenty-four hour period".
• "Watch and Dry"—Marianne discovers her laundry has not been cleaned.
• "Thinking Up a New Name for the Act"—Pete thinks "meat and potatoes" is the perfect name for a vaudeville act.
• "Buy 1, Get One Free"—Hookers offer a gilt opportunity.
• "Blind Willie and the Talking Dog"—Bullheaded Willie'south talking dog argues they could profit from his talent.

A product of An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein was produced by a Hofstra University theater group named The Spectrum Players, founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1959. The product used a "victorian sailors on shore leave watching a play" artful and used live rag-time and a character of an emcee not in the script to transition betwixt pieces. The production was directed past Richard Traub of Chicago and starred several of Hofstra's nigh promising immature actors: Nick Pacifico, Amanda Mac, Mike Quattrone, Ross Greenberg, Chelsea Lando, Allie Rightmeyer, and Paolo Perez as the MC.^[24]

In December 2001, Shel'due south Shorts was produced in repertory as two separate evenings under the titles Signs of Problem and Shel Shocked past the Market Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Signs of Trouble was directed by Wesley Savick, and Shel Shocked was directed past Larry Coen.^[25]

TV and film [edit]

Silverstein co-wrote the screenplay for Things Change with David Mamet. He besides wrote several stories for the Television set motion picture Gratis to Be... You and Me. Silverstein wrote and narrated an blithe curt of The Giving Tree, kickoff produced in 1973; a remake based on Silverstein's original screenplay only without his narration was released in 2015 by director Brian Brose. Other credits include the shorts De nail dice gaf (based on his novel) and Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Dorsum.^[26]

His songs have been used in many Television shows and movies, including Almost Famous ("The Embrace of Rolling Rock"), Thelma & Louise ("The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan") and Coal Miner's Daughter ("One's on the Mode"), as well every bit the Dustin Hoffman film Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? ("Bunky and Lucille", "Last Forenoon").^[26]

Views on his own writing [edit]

Ursula Nordstrom, Silverstein's editor at Harper & Row, encouraged Silverstein to write children'due south poesy. Silverstein said that he had never studied the poetry of others and had therefore adult his own quirky style, laid back and conversational, occasionally employing profanity and slang. In an interview with Publishers Weekly in 1975, he was asked how he came to do children's books:

"I didn't," Shel said, "I never planned to write or depict for kids. It was Tomi Ungerer, a friend of mine, who insisted—practically dragged me, kick and screaming, into Ursula Nordstrom's function. And she convinced me that Tomi was right; I could practice children's books." The relationship betwixt Ursula Nordstrom and Shel Silverstein is mutually rewarding. He considers her a superb editor who knows when to leave an author-illustrator alone. Asked if he would change something he had produced on an editor's say-and so, he answered with a apartment "No." Merely he added: "Oh, I will take a suggestion for revision. I do eliminate certain things when I'm writing for children if I call back only an adult will get the idea. So I drop information technology, or save it. But editors messing with content? No." Had he been surprised by the astronomical record of The Giving Tree, his biggest seller to date and one of the most successful children'due south books in years? Another emphatic no. "What I exercise is good," he said. "I wouldn't let it out if I didn't think it was." But The Giving Tree, which has been selling steadily since it appeared almost 10 years ago and has been translated into French, is not his own favorite among his books. "I like Uncle Shelby'south ABZ, A Giraffe and a Half, and Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back—I remember I similar that one the most."^{[7] [27]}

Otto Penzler, in his crime anthology Murder for Revenge (1998), commented on Silverstein'southward versatility:

The phrase "Renaissance man" tends to get overused these days, merely apply it to Shel Silverstein and information technology practically begins to seem inadequate. Not just has he produced with seeming ease country music hits and pop songs, but he's been equally successful at turning his manus to poetry, brusque stories, plays, and children'south books. Moreover, his whimsically hip fables, beloved past readers of all ages, have made him a stalwart of bestseller lists. A Low-cal in the Attic, most remarkably, showed the kind of staying power on the New York Times chart—two years, to be precise—that most of the biggest names (John Grisham, Stephen King and Michael Crichton) have never equaled with their blockbusters. His unmistakable illustrative style is another crucial chemical element to his appeal. Just as no writer sounds like Shel, no other artist's vision is every bit delightfully, sophisticatingly cockeyed. Ane tin can merely marvel that he makes the time to respond so kindly to his friends' requests. In the following work, permit'south exist glad he did. Drawing on his feature passion for list making, he shows how the deed is not merely in the wish but in the sublimation.^[28]

This anthology was the 2nd in a series, which also included Murder for Dear (1996) and Murder and Obsession (1999). All iii anthologies included Silverstein contributions. He did not really care to arrange to any sort of norm, but he did want to leave his mark for others to exist inspired by, as he told Publishers Weekly:

I would promise that people, no affair what age, would find something to place with in my books, pick up one and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. I think that if yous're a creative person, you should just become almost your business, do your work and not care most how it's received. I never read reviews considering if you believe the good ones you accept to believe the bad ones too. Non that I don't care about success. I practise, merely only because it lets me practise what I want. I was always prepared for success but that means that I accept to be prepared for failure too. I have an ego, I accept ideas, I want to be articulate, to communicate just in my own mode. People who say they create only for themselves and don't care if they are published... I detest to hear talk like that. If information technology's proficient, it'due south too adept not to share. That's the way I feel about my work. So I'll keep on communicating, but only my manner. Lots of things I won't practise. I won't continue television because who am I talking to? Johnny Carson? The camera? 20 one thousand thousand people I tin't come across? Uh-uh. And I won't requite any more interviews.^{[seven] [29]}

Personal life [edit]

From effectually 1967 to 1975, Silverstein lived on a houseboat in Sausalito, California. He also endemic homes in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Greenwich Hamlet, New York; and Key West, Florida.^[30] He never married, and according to the 2007 biography A Boy Named Shel, slept with "hundreds, mayhap thousands of women".^[2] He was also a frequent presence at Hugh Hefner'south Playboy Mansion and Playboy Clubs.

Silverstein reportedly met a woman from Sausalito named Susan Taylor Hastings at the Playboy Mansion,^[31] and they had a daughter named Shoshanna Jordan Hastings (born June 30, 1970).^[32] Susan died on June 29, 1975, ane mean solar day before Shoshanna'due south fifth altogether,^[32] and Shoshanna went to live with her uncle and aunt in Baltimore, Maryland.^[31] Shoshanna died of a cerebral aneurysm on April 24, 1982, at the age of 11.^[33] Silverstein's book A Low-cal in the Attic is dedicated to her.^[31] Silverstein later on met Key Westward native Sarah Spencer, who collection a tourist train and inspired Silverstein'due south song "The Smashing Conch Train Robbery".^{[34] [35] [36]} They had a son named Matthew De Ver (built-in November 10, 1984), who subsequently became a New York Metropolis–based songwriter and producer.^[37]

On June 25, 2019, ii decades later Silverstein's expiry, The New York Times Magazine listed him amongst hundreds of artists whose material had been destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios burn down.^[38]

Expiry [edit]

On May ten, 1999, Silverstein died at age 68 of a middle attack at his home in Central Westward, Florida.^[39] He was buried at Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Illinois.^[2]

Awards [edit]

Silverstein'south song "A Boy Named Sue" won a 1970 Grammy. He was nominated for an Academy Award and a Aureate Globe Award for his song "I'one thousand Checkin' Out" from the film Postcards from the Border.

Together with longtime friend and producer Ron Haffkine, Silverstein released "Where the Sidewalk Ends" on cassette in 1983, and every bit an LP phonograph tape in 1984, winning the 1984 Grammy Laurels for Best Recording For Children.

Silverstein was posthumously inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.^[forty] Silverstein was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in 2014.^[41]

Works [edit]

Bibliography [edit]

• Take Ten (Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1955); reissued in paperback equally Grab Your Socks! (Ballantine Books, 1956)
• Now Here's My Programme (Simon & Schuster, 1960) (first collection of American magazine cartoons)
• Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book (Simon & Schuster, 1960) (first book of original textile for adults)
• Playboy'south Teevee Jeebies (Playboy Press, 1963)
• Uncle Shelby's Story of Lafcadio: The King of beasts Who Shot Back (Harper & Row, 1963) (first children'south book)
• A Giraffe and a Half (Harper & Row, 1964)
• The Giving Tree (Harper & Row, 1964)
• Who Wants a Cheap Rhino? (Macmillan, 1964)
• Uncle Shelby'south Zoo: Don't Crash-land the Glump! and Other Fantasies (Simon & Schuster, 1964)
• More Playboy'south Teevee Jeebies (Playboy Press, 1965)
• Where the Sidewalk Ends (Harper & Row, 1974) (first collection of poems)
• The Missing Slice (Harper & Row, 1976)
• The Devil and Billy Markham (Playboy 25th Ceremony Issue, January 1979)
• Different Dances (Harper & Row, 1979)
• A Light in the Cranium (Harper & Row, 1981)
• The Missing Slice Meets the Big O (Harper & Row, 1981)
• Falling Upwardly (HarperCollins, 1996)
• Draw a Skinny Elephant (HarperCollins, 1998)
• Runny Babbit (HarperCollins, 2005) (published posthumously)
• Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies (HarperCollins, 2008 reissue)
• Every Affair On It (HarperCollins, 2011) (published posthumously)
• Runny Babbit Returns (HarperCollins, 2017) (published posthumously)

Silverstein believed that written works needed to be read on newspaper—the correct newspaper for the particular work. He unremarkably would non allow his poems and stories to be published unless he could choose the type, size, shape, color, and quality of the paper. Beingness a book collector, he took seriously the feel of the newspaper, the look of the book, the fonts, and the binding. Most of his books did non have paperback editions considering he did not desire his work to be diminished in any fashion. Silverstein's estate continues to control copyright permissions on his piece of work and has blocked the quotations of that work in at least one biographical treatment.^[12]

Albums [edit]

• Hairy Jazz (Elektra Records) (1959)
• Inside Folk Songs (Atlantic Records) (1962)
• Shel Silverstein's Stag Political party (Crestview Records) (1963)
• I'm So Good That I Don't Take to Brag (Buck Records) (1965)
• Drain My Brain (Cadet Records) (1967)
• Boy Named Sue and Other State Songs (RCA Records) (1969)
• Ned Kelly (United Artists) (1970) moving picture soundtrack
• Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (Columbia/CBS Records) (1971) picture soundtrack
• Freakin' at the Freakers Brawl (Columbia/CBS Records) (1972)
• Crouchin' on the Outside (Janus Records), collection of I'g So Good... and Bleed My Brain (1973)
• Songs and Stories (Parachute Records) (1978)
• The Great Conch Train Robbery (Flying Fish Records) (1980)
• Where the Sidewalk Ends (Columbia/CBS Records) (1984)
• A Light In the Attic (Columbia/CBS Records) (1985)
• Underwater Land (with Pat Dailey) (Olympia Records) (2002) (released posthumously)
• The All-time of Shel Silverstein: His Words His Songs His Friends (Legacy/Columbia]]/Sony BMG Music Amusement]]) (2005) (released posthumously)
• Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein (Carbohydrate Loma) (2010) (Tribute album)

See also [edit]

• Sloppy Seconds (anthology), the second Dr. Claw album, for which Silverstein wrote all the songs

References [edit]

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2. ^ ^{a b c d} Rogak, Lisa. A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein. Thomas Dunne Books (imprint of St. Martin's Printing), 2007. ISBN 0-312-35359-6
3. ^ Ted Merwin (April 28, 2014). "Dancing to Shel Silverstein". The New York Jewish Week . Retrieved December 15, 2015.
4. ^ "From the archives: Shel Silverstein, Stars and Stripes cartoonist". Stripes.com . Retrieved June 15, 2021.
5. ^ "Shel Silverstein Stars & Stripes Interview, 1968". Offonatangent.tumblr.com . Retrieved June xv, 2021.
6. ^ Studs Terkel interview, WFMT, Dec 12, 1963.
7. ^ ^{a b c} Mercier, Jean F. "Shel Silverstein", Publishers Weekly, February 24, 1975.
8. ^ "Shel Silverstein Biography". Super Children's Books. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
9. ^ ^{a b} "Shel Silverstein'due south Music (Legacy Recordings)". Archived from the original on March x, 2009.
10. ^ ^{a b c} "Cahill, Tim. "Dr. Hook's VD and Medicine Shows." Rolling Stone, November 9, 1972". Shelsilverstein.tripod.com. Retrieved Feb 27, 2013.
11. ^ Sack, John (1959). Report from Practically Nowhere. New York: Curtis Publishing Company.
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14. ^ Pollock, Bruce (2009). By the Time Nosotros Got to Woodstock: The Nifty Rock 'north' Curl Revolution of 1969. Backbeat Books. p. 232.
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19. ^ Haney, Johannah (Jan 1, 2014). Shel Silverstien. p. 26. ISBN9781627122726 . Retrieved July 24, 2019.
20. ^ "Silverstein, Shel(don) Allan." The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, et al., vol. 5: 1997-1999, Charles Scribner'south Sons, 2002, pp. 530-531. Gale eBooks. ISBN 9780684312927
21. ^ Windler, Robert. "The Devil and Baton Markham". backstage. Backstage. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
22. ^ Gussow, Mel (June 1, 1990). "Review/Theater; A Modernized Hamlet Among One-act Plays (Published 1990)". The New York Times . Retrieved November eighteen, 2020.
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24. ^ "Alexandra Rightmayer". backstage. Backstage. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
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27. ^ "WorldCat". WorldCat. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
28. ^ Penzler, Otto (1998). Murder for Revenge.
29. ^ Joseph Thomas (October 11, 2013). "My Shel Silverstein biography tin can't quote Shel Silverstein. Why?". Slate.
30. ^ "Shel Silverstein'due south Sausalito Houseboat Hits the Market Again, Post Renovation". SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports. March 3, 2020. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
31. ^ ^{a b c} Ferguson, Jamie Lynn (June xv, 2016). "Portrait of an Artist". Chicagoly Magazine. Archived from the original on Nov 1, 2017. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
32. ^ ^{a b} Rogak, pp. 102, 117
33. ^ Gold, p. 192
34. ^ Stacy Bee (May 17, 2009). "The Many Sides of Shel Silverstein".
35. ^ Gold, Marv (2009). Silverstein and Me: A Memoir. Red Hen Press. ISBN978-1-59709-151-0 . Retrieved May 24, 2010.
36. ^ Eck, Michael (January 27, 2008). "'Boy Named Shel' shows diverse life". Times Marriage. Archived from the original on May fifteen, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2010. (subscription required)
37. ^ "MATTHEW DE VER Presents 'The Gift & The Wound' + 'The Climb'". Skopemag.com . Retrieved June xv, 2021.
38. ^ Rosen, Jody (June 25, 2019). "Hither Are Hundreds More than Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed in the UMG Fire". The New York Times . Retrieved June 28, 2019.
39. ^ William Holmes Honan (May 11, 1999). "Shel Silverstein, Zany Writer and Cartoonist, Dies at 67". The New York Times. p. B10. Retrieved December 16, 2009. Shel Silverstein, whose goofy, gross and macabre yet always enchanting poetry for children sold more than fourteen million books, was establish dead yesterday forenoon at his domicile in Key West, Florida. He was 68. ...
40. ^ "Shel Silverstein Induction Year: 2002". Archived from the original on October ix, 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
41. ^ "Shel Silverstein". Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. 2014. Retrieved October fifteen, 2017.

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• Gold, Marv (2009). Silverstein & Me. Carmine Hen Press.
• Swimming, Steve (Jan 2006). "The Magical World of Shel Silverstein". Playboy (U.Southward. edition), pp 74–78 & pp 151–153.
• Rogak, Lisa (2007). A Male child Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein. ISBN 0-312-35359-half-dozen.
• Thomas, Joseph (2013). "Executors or Executioners: Why can't my biography of Shel Silverstein quote Shel Silverstein? His censorious manor". Slate, October 13.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Shel Silverstein at IMDb
• Shel Silverstein at Find a Grave
• Famous Poets and Poems
• Music inspired by Shel Silverstein
• Shel Silverstein Discography
• Shel Silverstein discography at Discogs
• All-time Shel Silverstein Poems
• Shel Silverstein at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Shel Silverstein: Profile and Poems at Poets.org

Audio [edit]

• WFMU: Unreleased demo: Shel Silverstein: "Terrible Thing"

German-language sites [edit]

• Andreas Weigel: Die überdrehte Welt des Shel Silverstein. Leben, Lieder und Texte. ORF, "Spielräume spezial" (2006).
• Pop-Alphabet: Dr. Hook & The Medicine Prove & Shel Silverstein.
• Bernd Glodek: Shel Silverstein. Was macht dieser Mann eigentlich nicht? (1977).
• Zum 75. Geburtstag des Kinderbuchautors und Songwriters Shel Silverstein. "Wiener Zeitung, Extra" (2005).

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Silverstein

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