Shel Silverstein

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Shel Silverstein

A World Renown Author!!!


Author

Sheldon Alan Silverstein


•American poet
•Singer
•Song-writer
•Musician
•Composer
•Cartoonist
•Screenwriter
•Author of children’s books
•born on September 25, 1930
•Died on May 10, 1999
•Unique writer who never study other poets
works for his own masterpieces
• Relied soley on adverse way of thinking to
create his works of art
• Books sold to billions of families world-wide
• Most popular books: “Where the Sidewalk
Ends” and “The Giving Tree.”
• 2 children
• Daughter with his wife Susan Hastings
• Susan dies 5 years after the daughter Shanna
• His second with a woman named Sarah Second
was a guy named Mathew
• “Falling Up” was dedicated to Mathew

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