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Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and a children's author who is mostly known for his children's book The Giving Tree.

He has won two Grammy Awards.

Although he's most known for his children's poetry, he also was good at many other things. In the 1950s, while he was serving in the U.S. armed forces, Silverstein drew cartoons for the Pacific Stars and Stripes, an American military newspaper.

He started writing and drawing cartoons for Playboy magazine in 1952.

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Shel Silverstein also wrote plays. It was Ursula Nordstrom, a book editor, who suggested that he should write for children.

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Silverstein's first book of poetry, Don’t Bump the Glump!

and Other Fantasies, was published in 1964. He's most well known for his books A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree, and Where the Sidewalk End