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Birth: | 8th September, 1940 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Poet |
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Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American writer of children's poetry. He studied at The High School of Music & Art and Hunter College, Manhattan, New York City. He has written more than 50 poetry collections, including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep, It's Halloween, The Mean Old Mean Hyena, and Something BIG Has Been Here. He has also set his poems to music on the audio versions of his anthologies. He appeared on the popular animated television series Arthur, in the episode "I'm a Poet." In 2006, the Poetry Foundation named Prelutsky the inaugural winner of the Children's Poet Laureate award. He married Carolynn in 1979.
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