George Selden

George Selden Thompson was born in 1929 in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of a doctor. He was educated at the Loomis School and at Yale University, where he wrote for the literary magazine, and he then spent a year studying in Rome. He settled in New York City, where he wrote under the name George Selden and, for some books for adults, under the pseudonym Terry Andrews. According to his own account, the idea for his best-known book came one night when he heard a cricket chirping in the Times Square subway station. The Cricket in Times Square (1960), illustrated by Garth Williams, tells of Chester, a cricket from Connecticut who arrives in New York in a picnic basket, and his friends Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat, who live in a subway newsstand run by a boy named Mario and his family. It was a Newbery Honor Book. Selden wrote several sequels, including Tucker's Countryside and Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride, as well as other children's books and plays. He died in New York in 1989.

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