Sheldon Allan " Shel " Silverstein (25 September 1930 - May 10, 1999) is an American writer known for cartoons, songs, and children's books. He arranges himself as Uncle Shelby in several works. Translated into over 30 languages, his books have sold over 20 million copies. She is the recipient of two Grammy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination.
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Born into a Jewish family, Silverstein grew up in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, attending Roosevelt High School and, later, University of Illinois, from where he was expelled. He then enrolled at the Chicago Fine Arts Academy where he attended when he was recruited into the US Army. He serves in Japan and Korea.
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Cartoon
Silverstein started drawing at age seven by searching for Al Capp's work. He told the Weekly Publisher: "When I was a kid - 12 to 14, I would have preferred to be a good baseball player or a hit with girls, but I could not play ball, I could not dance, fortunately, the girls do not want me.Not much I can do about it.So I start drawing and writing.I am also lucky because nobody I imitate, impressed by I have developed my own style, I created before I know there's Thurber, Benchley, Price and Steinberg I've never seen their work until about 30. By the time I got to where I attracted girls, I was working, and that was more important to me.Not that I did not want to make love, but the work has become a habit. "
He was first published in Roosevelt Torch, a student newspaper at Roosevelt University, where he studied English after leaving the Art Institute. During his time in the military, his cartoons were published on Pacific Stars and Stripes , where he was originally assigned to layout and paste. His first book, Take Ten , a compilation of his military cartoony series Take i , was published by Pacific Stars and Stripes in 1955. He then said his time at college is useless and would be better spent traveling around the world meeting people.
After returning to Chicago, Silverstein began sending cartoons to magazines while also selling hot dogs in Chicago ballparks. The cartoon starts appearing on View , Sports Illustrated and This Week .
American mass market paperback readers were introduced to Silverstein in 1956 when Take Ten reprinted by Ballantine Books as Grab Your Socks! This edition includes the introduction by Bill Mauldin.
In 1957, Silverstein became one of the leading cartoonists in Playboy, who sent him around the world to create illustrated travel journals with reports from remote areas. During the 1950s and 1960s, he produced 23 installments called "Shel Silverstein Visits..." as a feature for Playboy . Using a sketch format with typewriter style description, he documents his own experience at locations such as New Jersey nudist colonies, Chicago White Sox training camps, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, Fire Island, Mexico, London, Paris, Spain and Africa. In a village in Switzerland, he drew himself complaining, "I'll give them another 15 minutes, and if there's no yodels, I'll go back to the hotel." This illustrated travel essay was collected by the Fireside publisher in Playboy's Silverstein Around the World, published in 2007 with a preface by Hugh Hefner and an introduction by music journalist Mitch Myers.
In the same vein is the illustration for John Sack's Report from Practically Nowhere (1959), a collection of funny travel sketches that previously appeared in Playboy and other magazines.
"Now here's my plan..."
His most famous cartoon in the 1950s was featured on the cover of his next collection of cartoons, Now Here's My Plan: A Book of Emptiness , published by Simon & amp; Schuster in 1960. Biographer Silverstein Lisa Rogak writes:
- The cartoon on the cover that gives the title of the book will be one of his most famous and often cited works. In the cartoons, two prisoners are chained to the cell wall of the prison. Their hands and feet are shackled. One word to the other, "Now here's my plan." Silverstein was equally fascinated and oppressed by a number of analyzes and comments that soon began to swirl around the cartoons. "Many people say it is a very pessimistic cartoon, which I do not think is at all," he said. "There is a lot of hope even in hopeless situations They analyze it and question it I make this cartoon because I have an idea about the funny situation about two people."
The Silverstein cartoon popped into Playboy issues from 1957 to the mid-1970s, and one of its Playboy features was extended to Uncle Shelby's Uncle Shel's Uncle Book (Simon & Schuster, 1961), his first new book, original material for adults. Since it is unclear whether some material is intended for adults or children, the 1985 reprint has a glaring cover label.
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Silverstein Editor at Harper & amp; Row, Ursula Nordstrom, encouraged Silverstein to write poems of children. Silverstein says that he has never studied the poems of others and therefore has developed his own unique style, relaxed and conversational, sometimes using profanity and mix. In an interview
Weekly Publisher , he was asked how he came to do the children's book:
He was a strong, muscular, handsome man dressed in blue jeans and a big cowboy hat. Though he must be in his 40s (he's a Korean War veteran), he's also really dealing with contemporary scenes... How, then, PW wants to know, did he decide to go into children's books? "I do not," Shel said, "I never planned to write or draw for the kids Tomi Ungerer, my friend, who insisted - practically dragged me, kicked and screamed, to Ursula Nordstrom's office, and he assured me that Tomi I can do children's books. "The relationship between Ursula Nordstrom and Shel Silverstein was mutually beneficial. He thinks he's a great editor who knows when to leave the illustrator alone. Asked if he would change something he produces to an editor saying so, he replied flatly "No." But he added: "Oh, I'm going to take suggestions for revisions.I did eliminate some things when I wrote for kids if I thought only adults would get an idea.Then I dropped it, or put it away, but the editors tinkered with content? No. "Was he surprised by The Giving Tree's astronomical notes, his biggest seller to date and one of the most successful children's books of the year? There is another firm. "What I did well," he said. "I will not let him if I do not think that." But The Giving Tree, which has been sold steadily since it appeared nearly 10 years ago and has been translated into French, not his own favorite among his books. "I love Uncle Shelby's ABZ , Giraffes and Half , and Lafcadio, Throwing Lions - I think I like that one the most." The Giving Tree is one of the rare creations that seem to be opposed to categorization, which equally appeals to the respectable and the rude, the sophisticated and the simple. It tells about the tree and the use of human make it. When he was little, he played on a tree branch and enjoyed his delicious fruit. Later, he closed his love under a tree and used some of his wood to build a home for his family. Year passes; The man is now old and alone. The tree allows him to take his trunk to carve the boat, and the man leaves. Finally he came back for the last time sitting and resting on a tree stump - all that was left of him.
Otto Penzler, in his crime anthology of Killings for Vengeance (1998), commented on Silverstein's versatility:
This anthology is the second in the series, which also includes the Love Murders (1996) and Murder and Obsession (1999). These three anthologies include Silverstein's contribution. He does not really care to adapt to any norm, but he wants to leave his mark for others to be inspired by, as he says to Weekly Publishers :
I hope people, no matter what age, will find something to identify in my books, take one and experience a sense of personal discovery. It was great. I think if you are a creative person, you should go about your business, do your job and not care about how it is received. I never read reviews because if you believe good you have to believe the bad too. Not that I do not care about success. I did it, but only because it allowed me to do what I wanted. I'm always ready for success, but that means I have to be ready for failure too. I have an ego, I have an idea, I want to articulate, communicate but in my own way. People who say they only create for themselves and do not care if they are published... I hate to hear such talk. If that's good, it's too good not to share. That's what I feel about my job. So I will continue to communicate, but only in my way. Many things I will not do. I will not go to television because with whom I speak? Johnny Carson? Camera? Twenty million people I can not see? Uh-uh And I will not give any more interviews.
Songs
Silverstein's passion for music has been clear since he studied briefly at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. The music output includes a catalog of great songs; a number of hits for other artists, especially rock dr. Hook & amp; The Medicine Show. He wrote the highest solo single Tompall Glaser, "Put Another Log on Fire", "One on the Way" and "Hey Loretta" (both hit for Loretta Lynn, respectively in 1971 and 1973), and "25 Minutes to Go ", sung Johnny Cash, about a man in Death Row with each line counting back a minute closer. Silverstein also wrote one of Johnny Cash's famous hits, "A Boy Named Sue" and "The Unicorn", first recorded by Silverstein himself in 1962 but better known in his version by The Irish Rovers. Other songs co-written by Silverstein include "The Taker" written by Krisdayanti and recorded by Waylon Jennings, and a sequel to "A Boy Named Sue" called "Named Sue's" lesser known Father of a Boy, but he performing a song on television at The Johnny Cash Show . He also wrote a song called "F ** k 'em" which is less known and contains references to "f ** k kids."
He wrote lyrics and music for most of Dr Hook's songs, including "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'", "Freakin 'at Freakers' Ball," "Sylvia's Mother", "The Things I Did not Say" and the song warning about venereal disease, "Do not Give Dosage to Your Most Loved Person". He wrote many songs by Bobby Bare, including "Rosalie Good Eats Cafà ©  ©," The Mermaid "," The Winner "," Warm and Free "and" Tequila Sheila ". He co-authored with Baxter Taylor "Marie Laveau", whose authors received the 1975 BMI Award.
Silverstein's "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan", was first recorded by Dr. Hook in 1975, re-recorded by Marianne Faithfull (1979), Belinda Carlisle (1996), and Bobby Bare (2005) and later featured in Montenegro and Thelma & amp; Louise . "Queen of the Silver Dollar" was first recorded by Dr. Hook on their 1972 album Sloppy Seconds, and then by Doyle Holly (on her 1973 album Doyle Holly), Barbi Benton (in her 1974 album Barbi Doll ), Emmylou Harris (on his 1975 album Pieces of Heaven ) and Dave & amp; Sugar (on their 1976 album Dave & Sugar ).
Silverstein composes original music for several movies and displays music versatility in these projects, playing guitar, piano, saxophone, and trombone. He wrote "In the Hills of Shiloh", a poignant song about after the Civil War, recorded by The New Christy Minstrels, Judy Collins, Bobby Bare and others. 1970's movie soundtrack Ned Kelly featuring Silverstein songs performed by Waylon Jennings, Krisdayanti and others.
In addition, Silverstein wrote "Hey Nelly Nelly," a 60s folk song recorded by Judy Collins.
Silverstein has a popular following on the radio show. Demento. Among the most famous comedy songs are "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout", "The Smoke-Off" (a contest story to determine who can roll - or smoke - marijuana together faster), " I Got Stoned and I Missed It "and" Stacy Brown Got Two. " He wrote "The Father of Boy Named Sue", where he tells the story of the original song from the father's point of view, and the 1962 song "Boa Constrictor", sung by someone swallowed by a snake (recorded by Peter's peoples Paul, and Mary) was also recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1966 album Everybody Loves A Nut even though it is now better known as children's play songs.
An old friend of singer-songwriter Pat Dailey, Silverstein collaborated with him on the Underwater Land album launched after his death (2002). It contains 17 children's songs written and produced by Silverstein and sung by Dailey (with Silverstein joining him in some songs). This album features art by Silverstein.
He was a friend of Chicago songwriter Steve Goodman, to whom he wrote the last poem "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" (refusing credit for songwriting for his contribution). Goodman also recorded Silverstein's "Three-Legged Man", as did Ray Stevens.
In 2010, Bobby Bare and his son, Bobby Bare Jr., produced a CD called Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to Songs of Shel Silverstein released on Sugar Hill Records. Other artists who recorded Silverstein's songs include Brothers Four, Andrew Bird, My Morning Jacket, and Bobby Bare, Jr.
Theater
In January 1959, See, Charlie: A Prestigious Short History is a chaotic off-Broadway comedy staged by Silverstein, Jean Shepherd and Herb Gardner at New York's Orpheum Theater on Second Avenue on the Lower East Side. Silverstein went on to write over 100 one-act dramas. The Devil and Billy Markham, published in Playboy in 1979, was later adapted into a one-piece solo game that debuted on a double bill with Mamet Bobby Gould at Hell (1989) with Dr. vocalist. Hook Dennis Locorriere recounts. Karen Kohlhaas directed the Shel Silverstein Night Adult , produced by the Atlantic Theater Company of New York in September 2001 with short sketches:
An Adult Evening production of Shel Silverstein was produced by the Hofstra University theater group called "The Spectrum Players" founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1959. This production uses "victorian seamen on the beach who go to watch the drama" aesthetics and using live rag-time and MC characters that are not in the script for transitions between sections. This production was directed by Richard Traub from Chicago and starred some of the most promising young actors Hofstra; Nick Pacifico, Amanda Mac, Mike Quattrone, Ross Greenberg, Chelsea Lando, Allie Rightmeyer, and Paolo Perez as MCs.
In December 2001, Shel's Short Shorts were produced in the treasury as two separate nights under the heading Signs of Problems and Shel Surprised by Theater Market at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Problems directed by Wesley Savick, and Shel Shocked directed by Larry Coen.
TV and movies
Silverstein co-wrote the scenario for Changing Things with David Mamet. He also wrote some stories for the TV movie Free to Be... You and Me . Silverstein wrote and told a short animated The Giving Tree, which was first produced in 1973; a remake based on Silverstein's original scenario but without its narration released in 2015 by director Brian Brose. Other credits include De boom die gaf shorts (and based on his novel) and Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back .
His songs have been used in many TV shows and movies, including Almost Famous ("Cover of 'Rolling Stone'"), Thelma & amp; Louise ("Ballad of Lucy Jordan") and Coal Miner Princess ("One's on the Way"), as well as the movie Dustin Hoffman Who Harry Kellerman is and Why Did He Say Things Terrible That About Me? ("Bunky and Lucille", "Last Morning").
Awards
Silverstein "A Boy Named Sue" won the Grammy 1970. She was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for her song "I'm Checkin 'Out" in Edge's Postcard.
Together with old friend and producer Ron Haffkine they released "Where the Sidewalk Ends" on cassette in 1983, as a record disc in 1984, winning the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Recording For Kids.
He was posthumously appointed into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. Silverstein was elected into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in 2014.
Personal life
She has a daughter, Shoshanna Jordan Hastings, born June 30, 1970, alongside Susan Taylor Hastings of Sausalito, California. Susan died on June 29, 1975, one day before Shoshanna's fifth birthday, and Shoshanna died April 24, 1982, at the age of 11, from a cerebral aneurysm.
He also has a son named Matthew, born November 10, 1984, with Sarah Spencer from Key West, Florida; Sarah drove a train without a tourist tracker and inspired Shel's song "The Great Conch Train Robbery."
On May 10, 1999, Silverstein died at the age of 68 from a heart attack in Key West, Florida. She is buried at Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Illinois.
Work
Bibliography
- Take Ten (Pacific Star and Lines, 1955); reissued in paperback as Grab Your Socks! (Ballantine Books, 1956)
- Now This Is My Plan (Simon & Schuster, 1960) (The first collection of American magazine cartoons)
- Uncle Shelby's Uncle (Simon & Schuster, 1960) (The first book of original material for adults)
- Playboy's Teevee Jeebies (Playboy Press, 1963)
- Uncle Shelby's Story of Lafcadio: The Lions Who Shoot Back (Harper & Row, 1963) (children's first book)
- Giraffe and Half (HarperCollins, 1964)
- The Giving Tree (HarperCollins, 1964)
- Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? (Macmillan, 1964)
- Uncle Shelby's Zoo: Do ​​not Bump into Fat! and Other Fantasy (Simon & Schuster, 1964)
- Other Playboy's Teevee Jeebies (Playboy Press, 1965)
- Where Sidewalk Ends (HarperCollins, 1974) (collection of the first poem)
- Lost Section (HarperCollins, 1976)
- The Devil And Billy Markham (Playboy 25th Anniversary Issue, January 1979)
- Different Dance (HarperCollins, 1979)
- A Light in the Attic (Harper & Row, 1981) First edition states.
- Lost Sections Meet Big O (HarperCollins, 1981)
- Fall (HarperCollins, 1996)
- Draw a Skinny Elephant (HarperCollins, 1998)
- Runny Babbit (HarperCollins, 2005) (Published posthumously)
- Do not Bump The the Glump! and Other Fantasy (HarperCollins, edition of 2008)
- Every Thing On It (HarperCollins, 2011) (Published posthumously)
- Runny Babbit Returns (HarperCollins, 2017) (Published posthumously)
Silverstein believes that papers need to be read on the correct papers for a particular job. He usually will not let poetry and stories be published unless he can choose the type, size, shape, color, and quality of paper. Being a book collector, he takes seriously the nuances of paper, the display of books, fonts, and binding. Most of his books do not have a novel edition because he does not want his work to be reduced in any way. Silverstein's estate continues to control the copyright permission of his work and has blocked the work's excerpts in at least one biographical treatment.
Albums
- Hairy Jazz (Elektra Records) (1959)
- Inside the People's Songs (Atlantic Note) (1962)
- Stag Shel Silverstein Party (Crestview Record) (1963)
- I'm So Good That I Do not Have to Brag (Note Cadet) (1965)
- Drain My Brain (Note Cadet) (1967)
- Boy Named Sue and Other Country Songs (RCA Records) (1969)
- Ned Kelly (United Artists) (1970) movie soundtrack
- Who is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying The Horrible Things About Me? (Columbia/CBS Records) (1971) movie soundtrack
- Freakin 'at Freakers Ball (Columbia/CBS Records) (1972)
- Crouchin 'Outside (Janus Records), the collection I'm Very Good... and Drain My Brain (1973))
- Songs and Stories (Parachute Records) (1978)
- The Great Conch Train Robbery (Flying Fish Records) (1980)
- Where Sidewalk Ends (Columbia/CBS Records) (1984)
- A Light In the Attic (Columbia/CBS Records) (1985)
- Underwater Land (with Pat Dailey) (Olympia Records) (2002) (released posthumously)
- The Best of Shel Silverstein: Words His Songs His Friends (Legacy/Columbia/SBMG Records) (2005) (released posthumously)
- Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to Songs of Shel Silverstein (Sugar Hill) (2010) (Tribute album)
See also
- Charles Addams
- Robert Crumb
- Edward Gorey
- Gary Larson
- Lorin Morgan-Richards
- Sloppy Seconds (album), album Dr. The second hook that Silverstein wrote all the songs
- Place the End of the Sidewalk (poetry)
- Wilson's Land
References
Source
- Flippo, Chet (1998). "Shel Silverstein". In Paul Kingsbury, editor. The Encyclopedia of Country Music . New York: Oxford University Press, p.Ã, 484.
- Gold, Marv (2009). Silverstein & amp; I am . Red Hen Press.
- Pond, Steve (January 2006). "Magical World Shel Silverstein". Playboy (US edition), pp 74-78 & amp; pp 151-153.
- Rogak, Lisa (2007). A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein . ISBNÃ, 0-312-35359-6.
- Thomas, Joseph (2013). "Doers or Executors: Why my biography of Shel Silverstein can not mention Shel Silverstein? His very strong fortune". Slate , October 13th.
External links
- Official website
- Shel Silverstein on IMDb
- Clean Silverstein in Discover Mausoleum
- Famous Poems and Poems
- Music inspired by Shel Silverstein
- Silverstein Discography Disk
- Poems Best Silverstein Poems
- Shel Silverstein on Internet Internet Speculative Fiction
Audio
- WFMU: Unreleased Demo: Shel Silverstein: "Thing Terrible"
German site
- Andreas Weigel: Die ÃÆ'¼berdrehte Welt des Shel Silverstein. Leben, Lieder und Texte. ORF, "SpielrÃÆ'¤ume spezial" (2006).
- Pop-Alphabet: Dr. Hook & amp; The Medicine Show & amp; Shel Silverstein.
- Bernd Glodek: Shel Silverstein. Is the machine die Mann eigentlich nicht? (1977).
- Zum 75. Geburtstag des Kinderbuchautors and Songwriters Shel Silverstein. "Wiener Zeitung, Extra" (2005).
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