When I was a kid-12 to 14, around there-I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. In a 1975 interview with Publishers Weekly, Shel Silverstein talked about how he fell into working as a cartoonist and an author. Fun fact: Silverstein won a Grammy in 1970 for writing the poem "Boy Named Sue," which, of course, Cash sang in California's San Quentin State Prison in 1969. His quirky, conversational style, coupled with his line-drawing cartoons, became beloved among both children and parents.Įven Johnny Cash fell for Silverstein's style. He was never a poetry man, he says himself. In 1974, Silverstein released Where the Sidewalk Ends, and dedicated it, quite literally, "For Ursula." Ten years after his heartbreaking children's book The Giving Tree was published, Shel Silverstein's editor Ursula Nordstrom at Harper & Row convinced the author to write a book of poetry.
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