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A Boy Named Shel The first-ever biography of the one-of-kind author who created "The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends "and "A Light in the Attic" Full description
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"Engaging." --The New Yorker
"Consulting many sources, among them Silverstein's friends; radio interviews; and newspaper, journal and magazine articles, Rogak thoughtfully reconstructs the artist's life. ... An authoritative and accessible biography, absorbing from cover to cover." --Library Journal
"[A Boy Named Shel] offers revealing anecdotes, complete with some dirty laundry, about the prolific children's author and cartoonist." --Kirkus Reviews
"The strength of this biography is in leading readers back to Silverstein's art, which is, after all, where he would have us find him." --School Library Journal
"Fascinating...A Boy Named Shel is a revealing peek into the mind behind both 'Runny Babbit' and 'Freakin' at the Freakers Ball.'" --Albany Times Union
"A tribute to the unusual life of an extraordinary man." --The Daily Texan
"Lisa Rogak dives wholeheartedly into presenting the full story of media-shy Silverstein. She covers every step in his creative career, following his journey across media. Silverstein proved himself as a songwriter, a cartoonist, an author, a poet, a playwright and a screenwriter, and Rogak doesn't miss a beat." --The Daily Californian
"Faithfully following Silverstein on his wandering and tracing his deft compartmentalizing, Rogak lifts the curtain, respectfully, on this cultural icon." --GO (AirTran Airways Inflight Magazine)
"I didn't think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak of complexity and elusiveness, but Lisa Rogak has done an exemplary job of it." --Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop
"Shel Silverstein...was a genius in a dozen genres, the last of the real Renaissance men. He loved life and lived it more intensely than most of us dare to dream. There's a surprise on every page as Lisa Rogak tells the whole untold story of this truly fabulous character." --Dr. Demento, syndicated radio personality
About the Author
Lisa Rogak is the author of more than forty books. Her most recent biography was The Man Behind the Da Vinci Code: An Unauthorized Biography of Dan Brown. She lives in New Hampshire.
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0312539312
- ISBN 13 9780312539313
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages264
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