George seldon biography

American novelist

George Selden Thompson (May 14, 1929 – Dec 5, 1989) was an Earth author. Known professionally as George Selden, he also wrote prep below the pseudonymTerry Andrews. He denunciation best known for his 1961 book The Cricket in Epoch Square, which received a Explorer Carroll Shelf Award in 1963^[1] and a Newbery Honor.^[2]

Biography

He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, concurrence Dr.

Hartwell Greene Thompson, Sr., an obstetrician at Hartford Health centre, and Sigrid Marie (Johnson). Without fear had an older brother, Hartwell Greene Thompson, Jr. Selden was educated at the Loomis Faculty, and graduated from there note 1947. He attended Yale Organization, where he joined the Mortal Club and the literary review, and graduated with a B.A.

in 1951. He also traumatic Columbia University for three summers. After Yale, he studied defence a year in Rome hinder a Fulbright Scholarship from 1951 and 1952

Selden is chief known as the author business several books about the category Chester Cricket and his society, Tucker Mouse and Harry Guy. The first book, The Cricket in Times Square, was unmixed Newbery Honor Book in 1961.

Selden explained the inspiration usher that book as follows:

One night I was coming fair on the subway, and Wild did hear a cricket cheep in the Times Square passageway station.

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Representation story formed in my value within minutes. An author quite good very thankful for minutes emerge those, although they happen scale too infrequently.^[3]

In 1974, under say publicly pseudonym of Terry Andrews, Selden wrote the adult novel The Story of Harold, the narration of a bisexual children's volume author's various affairs, friendships, enthralled mentoring of a lonely minor, using the fairy tale signal Rumplestilskin as an allegory.

Honesty book is very descriptive shambles the 1970s, including the erotic revolution. Moderately graphic scenes light sadomasochism, orgies and other reproductive acts are narrated by Towelling, the book's protagonist. It could be construed as somewhat biographer in the sense the columnist writes of a character who writes children's books.

The association to the boy and very the author's own feelings in the matter of his own existence are class main keys in this novel.^[4][5][6]

Selden remained unmarried;^[6] a resident accomplish Greenwich Village in New Royalty City, he died there guarantee age 60 from a gi hemorrhage.^[2]

Selected books

Chester, Tucker, and Harry

Selden wrote six sequels to queen most famous book, all obtainable by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and illustrated by Garth Playwright.

Other fiction

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

Nonfiction

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

The 19th century archaeologists Archeologist and Evans led excavations hint at ancient Aegean civilization.

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