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Also Known As Sheldon Allan Silverstein
Born September 25, 1930 • Chicago • Illinois
Died May 10, 1999 (aged 68) • Key West • Florida
Awards And Honors Grammy Award (1984) • Grammy Award (1969)
Notable Works “The Giving Tree” • “Where the Sidewalk Ends”

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James Thurber, 1955.
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June Jordan.
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T.S. Eliot, 1955
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Book Jacket of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by American children's author illustrator Eric Carle (born 1929)
Classic Children’s Books Quiz
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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