Biography george selden

American novelist

George Selden Thompson (May 14, 1929 – December 5, 1989) was an American author. Known professionally as George Selden, he also wrote under the pseudonymTerry 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]

Biography

He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Dr.

Hartwell Greene Thompson, Sr., an obstetrician at Hartford Hospital, and Sigrid Marie (Johnson).

Biography george selden and son

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 a