![]() ![]() It was while working for the military newspaper ‘Pacific Stars and Stripes’ that he first started drawing cartoons. But before he could graduate, he was drafted into the army to serve in the Korean War. Never good in studies, he could not adjust anywhere until he entered Roosevelt University, where his talent was recognized and nurtured by his English professor. To keep his mind away from the trouble, he started doodling early in his childhood. Born during the Great Depression into an immigrant Jewish family in Chicago, he was raised under difficult conditions for the first few years of his life. ![]() Sheldon Allan Silverstein, popularly known as Shel Silverstein, was an American poet, singer-songwriter, children’s author, cartoonist and a screenwriter. ![]()
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