Further Reading
- Honan, William H., “Shel Silverstein, Zany Writer and Cartoonist, Dies at 67,” New York Times Biographical Service 30, no. 5 (May 1999): 766-767. (An obituary of Silverstein.)
- Isherwood, Charles, “An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein,” Variety 384, no. 11 (29 October 2001): 35. (Review of the theatrical production An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein, criticizing the series of one-act plays as tiresome, dated, tasteless, feeble, and lacking in humor.)
- Jacobson, Mark, “Swinging,” New York Times Magazine (2 January 2000): 21. (An obituary of Silverstein.)
- Livingston, Myra Cohn, “The Light in His Attic,” New York Times Book Review 91, (9 March 1986): 36-37. (Discussion of the underlying moral messages in Silverstein's poetry for children.)
- Myers, Mitch, “Shel Silverstein, 1930-1999,” Rolling Stone, no. 815 (24 June 1999): 26. (An obituary of Silverstein.)
- Review of Oh, Hell, written by Shel Silverstein and David Mamet, Variety 337, no. 10 (13 December 1989): 89. (Review of the theatrical double-bill Oh, Hell, criticizing Silverstein's one-act play The Devil and Billy Markham as silly, tedious, underdeveloped, and juvenile.)
- Simon, John, “The Devil and Billy Markham,” New York 22, (18 December 1989): 105. (A review of the double-theatrical bill Oh, Hell, featuring Silverstein's one-act play The Devil and Billy Markham with David Mamet's one-act Bobby Gould in Hell.)
- Ward, S., Meet Shel Silverstein (2001): 24 p. (A brief biography of Silverstein, aimed at young readers.)
- “Three New Plays,” Variety 311 (22 June 1983): 93, 96. (Review of Silverstein's one-act play Gorilla, praising the work as a “savagely wry tragicomedy.”)
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