Comparing Silverstein's Life And Accomplishments

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He had so many talents like songwriter , cartoonist, author, and poet. he was first published in stars and stripes magazine during the 1950’s, this is while he was enlisted in the army .After he was done in the army having served in japan and korea. He got published in every issue of Playboy from 1957- 1970. This was he big break. Then everybody knew his name; Sheldon Allan He was born September 25, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois . This is where he grew up with his sister ,Peggy Meyers. His parents names were Nathan and Helen silverstein. He was very private .Not even his publisher knew too much about him. What I know is he went to Roosevelt High School , then college, but soon got kick out. that is why he enlisted in the Army. When he was working at Playboy he explored other things like songwriting. He wrote some poems for the magazines “The Winner” and “The Smoke-Off”. Also, he wrote books of his own like Take Ten and Grab your Socks. During this time he did music releasing a album Hairy Jazz in 1959.…show more content…
Thanks to Ms.Nordstrom he wrote his first kids book titled The lion who shot back . The next year he wrote two book titled a giraffe and a half plus The giving tree. Silverstein’s giving tree was very well -discussed because people thought it was not appropriate for little kids. Because you see he meant for it to be a taste of real life for kids to explain how greedy people really are. Then the 1960’s were over and he went back to songwriting.He wrote songs for everyone like Johnny Cash and Dr. hook. In the early 70’s he wrote full length albums. He also wrote for motion picture films ‘till

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