Shel Silverstein Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

Sheldon Allan Silverstein, better known as Shel Silverstein, was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist and screenwriter. Born in Chicago in 1930, he also served in the Army for a brief period where his cartoons were published in the military magazine, Pacific Stars and Stripes. He came to notice with his successful book, Take Ten.

Later, he became leading cartoonist for Playboy magazine where his satirical and provocative illustrations became a favorite with masses. In 1960s, Silverstein turned into a well-known composer and lyricist with hits like, “A Boy Named Sue”, “One’s On The Way”, “The Unicorn”, “Boa Constrictor”, “So Good To So Bad”, “Sylvia’s Mother”, “The Great Conch Train Robbery”, and “Yes, Mr. Rogers”.

He was facilitated with a Grammy Award in 1970 for “A Boy Named Sue”. For his song “I’m Checkin’ Out” in the film Postcards from the Edge, he was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. Silverstein was famous among kids as Uncle Shelby and was admired for his children books. Some of his famous children books were The Giving Tree (1964), The Missing Piece (1982), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1981), A Light in the Attic (1981) and Falling Up (1996). In 2002, He was posthumously inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.