Shel Silverstein
(1932–1999)

Shel Silverstein was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up wanting to become a dancer or a baseball player. Instead he became a cartoonist and a writer. Silverstein graduated from Roosevelt High School and then went on to the University of Illinois as an art student. He withdrew after one year and then attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Silverstein was drafted into the army in 1953 and served in Japan and Korea. During that time, he worked for the U. S. military publication, Stars and Stripes. Silverstein is best known for his nonsense verse and absurdist drawing with his four best-selling books, The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up.

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