Silverstein, Shel - Publishers Weekly (essay date 17 May 1999)
Publishers Weekly (essay date 17 May 1999)
SOURCE: “Shel Silverstein, 1932-1999.” Publishers Weekly 246, no. 20 (17 May 1999): 32.
[In the following obituary, Publishers Weekly provides a brief overview of Silverstein's career.]
Poet, songwriter, recording artist and cartoonist Shel Silverstein died of a heart attack on May 9. He was 66.
Born and raised in Chicago, Silverstein began his career as a writer and cartoonist for Playboy in the early 1950s. Prior to that, he was a cartoonist for the Pacific Stars and Stripes while in the Army in Japan and Korea.
Silverstein was the author of four bestselling children's books: The Giving Tree (1964), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974), A Light in the Attic (1981) and Falling Up (1996), all published by HarperCollins. Together they have sold over 18 million copies in hardcover and have been translated into 20 languages.
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