Luckily, the girls didn’t want me not much I could do about that. "But I couldn’t play ball, I couldn’t dance. "When I was a kid-12, 14, around there-I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls," he once said in an interview. Shel Silverstein didn’t always want to be a writer, or even a cartoonist or songwriter. One of Shel Silverstein's first jobs was selling hot dogs in Chicago.
Here are eight things you might not know about him. This isn’t all that surprising, considering that the Chicago-born author, who passed away in 1999, led a pretty unconventional life. At the time they were written, though, they defied common notions about what a "children’s" story could and should be. From The Giving Tree to Where the Sidewalk Ends, his titles are beloved by children and adults alike. Shel Silverstein was a multi-talented children’s author, comic artist, poet, playwright, and songwriter, and above all else, a rule-breaker.
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