Can someone tell me about shel silverstein.?

Question

I need the truth too.

Answer 1

http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html This is his website which would definitely be the truth. He is a very popular children's author. Where the Sidewalk Ends is one of his best known collections. Here is another biographical site that is good .
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/104

Answer 2

All this info is great on Shel. He died in 1999--how time flies.

What I liked best about him was his amazing mix of children- and adult-themed work. The aforementioned books are all wonderful for kids (and adults love them, too), but then, after the kids go to bed, you can break out his recordings like "The Great Smoke Off" which is purely adults-only, about a marijuana rolling/smoking competition in San Rafael, CA. Hopefully not a true story...

He was a very talented, albeit eccentric man.

Answer 3

I met him once when i worked on Cape cod... he didn't much care for the local children, which led to his writing of the "abz book, a primer for adults only", but the children LOVED him, and so he would make up rhymes and stories, many of which were published in "a light in the attic" and "where the sidewalk ends". he died a few years ago, quietly, of a heart attack. he will be greatly missed.

Answer 4

All I know is he wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic- two of the greatest childrens' books ever, in my opinion. I loved 'em!

Answer 5

I know of three songs that he wrote or were adapted from works of his:

The Unicorn Song
A Boy Named Sue
The Cover of the Rolling Stone

Answer 6

he also wrote the giving tree which was huge when i was a kid. i don't know much about him but:

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/6166/ss/ssbio.html

http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=12731

and this one talks about his adult works:

http://members.tripod.com/~ShelSilverstein/