Sidney Sheldon Dead at 89
Who is Sidney Sheldon? He is a best-selling author, did Broadway theater, movies and TV. I have actually never read any of his books, but when Henry and I were talking about it, we thought he was the author who wrote the kids books in black and white. When we read the actually article, we figured out we were thinking about a different guy. I’m not sure why we both thought it was Sidney Sheldon. But I am sorry to hear that he passed away and maybe I’ll pick up one of his books.
Anyway, I did a search through Amazon and it was hard trying to find out the author that we were thinking about. I did searches for books that had “Sidney”, “Sydney” and “Sheldon”. No luck. I tried searching for “black and white”, no luck either. Then I tried to remember some of the titles and finally remembered that one of them had the word “attic”, finally Amazon returned some results that looked familiar. I was thinking about Light in the Attic and the author is Shel Silverstein.
I decided to look Shel Silverstein up in Wikipedia and discovered he has passed away too, in 1999. And it’s kind of sad, Light in the Attic was dedicated to his daughter Shoshanna, who had passed away at the age of 11. And his wife, the mother of Shoshanna, actually died almost exactly five years after having Shoshanna.
Ok, enough of the sadness, if you want more information on Shel Silverstein’s books, you can go to his website at ShelSilverstein.com.
3 Responses to “Sidney Sheldon Dead at 89”
Comment from bennie
Time February 2, 2007 at 9:12 pm
oh, so i read the wiki description of silverstein. his other great works were “where the sidewalk ends” and “falling up”. i read 3 out of the 4. never read the giving tree.
Comment from oda
Time February 3, 2007 at 12:27 am
i don’t think the kids have the books. i remember a light in the attic and where the sidewalk ends, but i don’t remember falling up or giving tree.
sorry to depress you. =(
Comment from bennie
Time February 2, 2007 at 9:07 pm
thanks for depressing me. if i ever need to cry, i’ll just read your postings. shel silverstein was awesome. i wonder if the kids have that book. if not, that’ll be a good book for them. that, and the giving tree. or whatever it was called.