TWA Poet: Shel Silverstein

1930 - 1999

Today is the birthday of the poet, cartoonist, playwright, and songwriter Shel Silverstein, born Sheldon Allan Silverstein, to a Jewish family in Chicago (1930). As a kid, he wanted to play baseball or be popular with girls, but he couldn't play ball and he couldn't dance. "Luckily, the girls didn't want me," he said. "Not much I could do about that. So…