Shel Silverstein was a beloved children’s book author, poet, illustrator, and f*ckboy.  Is The Giving Tree super misogynistic?  How much should an author’s life affect our judgment of his work?   How bad does your childhood have be to make you hate happy endings??  And … most importantly … would you?

Sources:
>Carnegie Mellon University's Banned Books Project
>LA Times
>Banned Books Awareness Blog Post
>Biography.com - Shel Silverstein
>"The Early Life of the Talented Shel Silverstein"
>New Yorker Retrospective

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