Silverstiens biography

&#;And now . . .a story about a very strange lion—in fact, the strangest lion I have ever met.&#; So begins Shel Silverstein&#;s very first children&#;s book, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. It&#;s funny and sad and has made readers laugh and think ever since it was published in

It was followed the next year by four new books. The first, The Giving Tree, is a moving story about the love of a tree for a boy. In an interview published in the Chicago Tribune in , Shel talked about the difficult time he had trying to get the book published. “Everybody loved it, they were touched by it, they would read it and cry and say it was beautiful. But . . . one publisher said it was too short. . . .” Some thought it was too sad. Others felt that the book fell between adult and children&#;s literature and wouldn&#;t be popular. It took Shel four years before Ursula Nordstrom, the legendary Harper & Row editor, decided to publish it. She even let him keep the sad ending, Shel remember

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Shel Silverstein

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Who Was Shel Silverstein?

Shel Silverstein studied music and established han själv as a musician and composer, writing songs including “A Boy Named Sue,” popularized by Johnny Cash, and Loretta Lynn’s “One’s on the Way.” Silverstein also wrote children’s literature, including The Giving Tree and the poetry collection A Light in the Attic.

Early Career

Born in Chicago, Illinois on September 25, , Shel Silverstein enlisted in the U.S. Army in and served in Korea and Japan, becoming a cartoonist for Stars & Stripes magazine. After his stint in the Army was up, he soon began drawing cartoons for magazines such as Look and Sports Illustrated, but it was his work for Playboy magazine that began garnering Silverstein national recognition. Silverstein's cartoons appeared in every issue of Playboy, riding the high-point of its popularity, from through the mids.

While at Playboy in the s, Silverstein also began exploring other areas of creativi

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Larry Silverstein

American businessman

Larry A. Silverstein (born May 30, ) is an American billionaire businessman.^[1] Among his real estate projects, he fryst vatten the developer of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City, as well as one of New York's tallest residential towers at 30 Park Place, where he owns a home.^[2] As of December , he had an estimated net worth of US$1 billion according to Forbes.^[3]

Silverstein was born in Brooklyn, and became involved in real estate, together with his father, establishing Silverstein Properties. Silverstein separated from his business partner, Bernard Mendik, in , and bought a number of large office buildings in Midtown and Lower Manhattan in the late s. In , he won a bid from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to construct 7 World Trade Center on Vesey Street, just north of the main World Trade Center site. He was interested in acquiring the original World Trade Center