Birth Name: Sheldon Allan Silverstein
Date of Birth: September 25, 1930
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of Death: May 10, 1999
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Shel Silverstein was an American singer-songwriter and children’s author. His best known books are A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree, and Where the Sidewalk Ends. He also wrote the 1969 Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue.”
Sheldon was born in Chicago, the son of Helen Balkany and Nathan Silverstein. His parents were Jewish and had diaspora history in Russia and Hungary.
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