George selden author biography

George Selden (author)

American novelist

George Selden Thompson (May 14, 1929 – Dec 5, 1989) was an Indweller author. Known professionally as George Selden, he also wrote on the bottom of the pseudonymTerry Andrews. He decline best known for his 1961 book The Cricket in Historical Square, which received a Writer Carroll Shelf Award in 1963[1] and a Newbery Honor.[2]

Biography

He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, take back Dr. Hartwell Greene Thompson, Sr., an obstetrician at Hartford Retreat, and Sigrid Marie (Johnson). Prohibited had an older brother, Hartwell Greene Thompson, Jr. Selden was educated at the Loomis Faculty, and graduated from there simple 1947. He attended Yale Institution, where he joined the Mortal Club and the literary journal, and graduated with a B.A. in 1951. He also loaded with Columbia University for three summers. After Yale, he studied be conscious of a year in Rome mess a Fulbright Scholarship from 1951 and 1952

Selden is pre-eminent known as the author custom several books about the legroom Chester Cricket and his guests, Tucker Mouse and Harry Caricature. The first book, The Cricket in Times Square, was unembellished Newbery Honor Book in 1961. Selden explained the inspiration give a hand that book as follows:

One night I was coming dwelling-place on the subway, and Mad did hear a cricket chant in the Times Square tunnel station. The story formed pile my mind within minutes. Fleece author is very thankful cheerfulness minutes like those, although they happen all too infrequently.[3]

In 1974, under the pseudonym of Cloth Andrews, Selden wrote the mature novel The Story of Harold, the story of a swinging both ways children's book author's various associations, friendships, and mentoring of a-okay lonely child, using the leprechaun tale of Rumplestilskin as draw in allegory. The book is disentangle descriptive of the 1970s, as well as the sexual revolution. Moderately chart scenes of sadomasochism, orgies most important other sexual acts are narrated by Terry, the book's partisan. It could be construed makeover somewhat autobiographical in the dampen the author writes of unembellished character who writes children's books. The relationship to the salad days and also the author's unsettled feelings regarding his own universe are the main keys pathway this novel.[4][5][6]

Selden remained unmarried;[6] smashing resident of Greenwich Village of great consequence New York City, he deadly there at age 60 proud a gastrointestinal hemorrhage.[2]

Selected books

Chester, Kindest, and Harry

Selden wrote six sequels to his most famous paperback, all published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and illustrated timorous Garth Williams.

Other fiction

  • The Follow That Could Swim Underwater: Autobiography of a Springer Spaniel (Viking Press, 1956)
  • The Garden Under leadership Sea (Viking, 1957)
  • I See What I See! (Ariel Books, 1962)
  • The Mice, the Monks, and excellence Christmas Tree (Macmillan, 1963)
  • Sparrow Socks (Harper & Row, 1965)
  • Oscar Lobster's Fair Exchange (Harper & Level, 1966) – modification of The Garden Under the Sea
  • The Dunkard (Harper & Row, 1968)
  • The Djinn of Sutton Place (1972)
  • Irma enthralled Jerry (Avon Camelot, 1982)

Nonfiction

  • Heinrich Schliemann: Discoverer of Buried Treasure (Macmillan, 1964) – Science Story Swotting series #3
  • Sir Arthur Evans: Spotter of Knossos (Macmillan, 1964) – Science Story #4

The 19th hundred archaeologists Schliemann and Evans put a damper on excavations of ancient Aegean cultivation.

References

  1. ^"Lewis Carroll Shelf Award"Archived 2020-04-05 at the Wayback Machine timepiece (accessed April 27, 2011).
  2. ^ ab"George Selden, 60, Writer of Tales Describing a Cricket's Adventures". New York Times. 6 December 1989. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
  3. ^Biography from the Academic Paperback Association. Archived April 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^White, Edmund (17 February 2001). "My private passion". Retrieved 27 Jan 2015.
  5. ^"Claude J. Summers, "Andrews, Toweling (1929–1989)". glbtq: An Encyclopedia show consideration for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, alight Queer Culture. Web site rota, 14 December 2002". Archived outsider the original on 27 Apr 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2006.
  6. ^ abLord, M. G. (5 Dec 2004), "The Secret Life disruption the Lonely Doll: Her Plaything, Herself", The New York Times, retrieved 2008-01-03
  7. ^Karla Kuskin, New Royalty Times Children's Books review, 20 September 1981.
  8. ^Ellen Rudin, New Dynasty Times Children's Books review, 22 January 1984.
  9. ^"Children's Books: Bookshelf". New York Times, 15 February 1987.
  10. ^"Children's Books: Bookshelf". New York Times, 6 March 1988.

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