| 词条 | George Selden (author) |
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| name = George Selden | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = George Selden, Terry Andrews | birth_name = George Selden Thompson | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|05|14}} | birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|12|05|1929|05|14}} | death_place = Greenwich Village, New York City | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = English | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = Bachelor of Arts | alma_mater = Yale University | period = 1961–1974 | genre = Children's fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = The Cricket in Times Square | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Newbery Honor Medal Lewis Carroll Shelf Award | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = yes }}George Selden Thompson (May 14, 1929 – December 5, 1989) was an American author. Known professionally as George Selden, he also wrote under the pseudonym Terry Andrews. He is best known for his 1961 book The Cricket in Times Square, which received a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963[1] and a Newbery Honor.[2] BiographyBorn in Hartford, Connecticut to Dr. Hartwell Greene Thompson, Sr., an obstetrician at Hartford Hospital, and Sigrid Marie (Johnson). He had an older brother, Hartwell Greene Thompson, Jr. Selden was educated at the Loomis School, and graduated from there in 1947. He attended Yale University, where he joined the Elizabethan Club and the literary magazine, and graduated with a B.A. in 1951. He also attended Columbia University for three summers. After Yale, he studied for a year in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship from 1951 and 1952. Selden is best known as the author of several books about the character Chester Cricket and his friends, Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat. The first book, The Cricket in Times Square, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1961. Selden explained the inspiration for that book as follows: One night I was coming home on the subway, and I did hear a cricket chirp in the Times Square subway station. The story formed in my mind within minutes. An author is very thankful for minutes like those, although they happen all too infrequently.[3] In 1974, under the pseudonym of Terry Andrews, Selden wrote the adult novel The Story of Harold, the story of a bisexual children's book author's various affairs, friendships, and mentoring of a lonely child, using the fairy tale of Rumplestilskin as an allegory. The book is very descriptive of the 1970s, including the sexual revolution. Moderately graphic scenes of sadomasochism, orgies and other sexual acts, are narrated by Terry, the book's protagonist. It could be construed as somewhat autobiographical in the sense the author writes of a character who writes children's books. The relationship to the boy and also the author's own feelings regarding his own existence are the main keys in this novel.[4][5][6] Selden remained unmarried;[6] a resident of Greenwich Village in New York City, he died there at age 60 from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage.[2] Selected booksChester, Tucker, and HarrySelden wrote six sequels to his most famous book, all published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and illustrated by Garth Williams.
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The 19th century archaeologists Schliemann and Evans led excavations of ancient Aegean civilization. References1. ^"Lewis Carroll Shelf Award" at literatureplace.com (accessed April 27, 2011). 2. ^1 {{cite news | title=George Selden, 60, Writer of Tales Describing a Cricket's Adventures | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7D7103DF935A35751C1A96F948260 | work=New York Times | date=6 December 1989 | accessdate=2006-12-19}} 3. ^Biography from the Educational Paperback Association. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060423081829/http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=155 |date=April 23, 2006 }} 4. ^{{cite news|last1=White|first1=Edmund|title=My private passion|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/feb/17/classics.features|accessdate=27 January 2015|date=17 February 2001}} 5. ^Claude J. Summers, "Andrews, Terry (1929–1989)". glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. Web site listing, 14 December 2002. 6. ^1 {{citation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05LORDL.html |first=M. G. |last=Lord |title=The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: Her Doll, Herself |periodical=The New York Times |date=5 December 2004 |accessdate=2008-01-03 }} 7. ^[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01EFD71739F933A1575AC0A967948260 Karla Kuskin, New York Times Children's Books review, 20 September 1981.] 8. ^[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02EEDB1138F931A15752C0A962948260 Ellen Rudin, New York Times Children's Books review, 22 January 1984.] 9. ^[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DF1239F936A25751C0A961948260 "Children's Books: Bookshelf". New York Times, 15 February 1987.] 10. ^[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7D91E31F935A35750C0A96E948260 "Children's Books: Bookshelf". New York Times, 6 March 1988.] External links
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