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Shel Silverstein biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Shel Silverstein

Author Name:

Shel Silverstein

Born As:

Sheldon Alan Silverstein

Other Names:

Born:

25 Sep 1930

Died:

10 May 1999




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Poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books                          
Selected Works:

Take Ten - 1955
Grab Your Socks! - 1956
Now Here's My Plan - 1960
Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book - 1961
A Playboy's Teevee Jeebies oh la la - 1961
- Uncle Shelby's story of Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back - 1963
A Giraffe and a Half - 1964
The Giving Tree - 1964
Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? - 1964
Uncle Shelby's Zoo - 1964
More Playboy's Teevee Jeebies - 1965
Where the Sidewalk Ends - 1974
The Missing Piece - 1976
Different Dances - 1979
A Light in the Attic - 1981
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O - 1981
Falling Up - 1996
Draw a Skinny Elephant - 1998
Runny Babbit - 2005 - published posthumously
Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies - 2008, originally published in 1964

Albums:

Hairy Jazz - Elektra Records - 1959
Inside Folk Songs - Atlantic Records - 1962
I'm So Good That I Don't Have To Brag - Cadet Records - 1965
Drain My Brain - Cadet Records - 1967
A Boy Named Sue And Other Country Songs - RCA Records - 1969
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? - Columbia Records - 1971 film soundtrack
Freakin' At The Freakers Ball - Columbia Records - 1972
Crouchin' On The Outside - Janus Records, collection of I'm So Good... and Drain My Brain - 1973
Songs & Stories - Parachute Records - 1978
The Great Conch Train Robbery - Flying Fish Records - 1980
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Columbia Records - 1984
A Light In The Attic - Columbia Records - 1985
Underwater Land - with Pat Dailey - Olympia Records - 2002 - released posthumously
The Best of Shel Silverstein: His Words His Songs His Friends - Legacy/Columbia/SBMG Records - 2005 - released posthumously.
                          
                          
                          
Silverstein believed that written works needed to be read on paper - the correct paper for the particular work. He usually would not allow his poems and stories to be published unless he could choose the type, size, shape, color, and quality of the paper himself. As a book collector, he took seriously the feel of the paper, the look of the book from the inside and out, the typeface for each poem, and the binding of his books. He did not allow his books to be published in paperback because he did not want his work to diminish in any way.