* Note to Shel Silverstein fans: “Every Thing On It,” a new book of Shel Silverstein poems and drawings, unpublished until now, was released last month. Click here to read an excerpt! (© 2011 ...

When Gibson moved to California, Shel followed and started a love affair with the Golden State that lasted his whole life, leading him to settle for years at a time on his houseboat in Sausalito.

Books for children often are preachy or cloying, with characters always progressing in virtue and endings always happy. Author Shel Silverstein, who died Monday at 68, was never guilty of those sin… ...

Fun fact: Silverstein won a Grammy in 1970 for writing the poem "Boy Named Sue," which, of course, Cash sang in California's San Quentin State Prison in 1969. It became one of his biggest hits.