>Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:33:20 -0400
(EDT)
>From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Noir kiddie lit
>
>George worte:
>
>"Forgive me if he's already been mentioned, but Shel
Silverstein seems
>the obvious choice here. He's best know for writing
hundreds of poems
>for children, but he probably wrote twice as many for
adults . . ."
>
>He's best known to me as the writer of A Boy Named
Sue and other songs.
...including a goodly portion of the "Dr. Hook"*
playlist.
Silverstein was a frequent Playboy contributor, IIRC, in the
60's, simultaneously with his other career as a children's
author. He would have been a fascinating person to me. (He
died several years ago,)
* vague relevance: Ron Sawyer may not have been
'hard-boiled', but he sure
_looked_ sinister enough. with the eye-patch, when I saw him
on a come-back tour, in the late 80s....
-- Bill B
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