George Selden (author)

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George Selden (May 14, 1929 - December 1989) was the pseudonym of the American writer George Selden Thompson. He was educated at the Loomis School, and graduated from there in 1947. He earned a B.A. degree from Yale University, where he joined the Elizabethan Club and the literary magazine. 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 the Cricket in Times Square books. It was a Newberry Honor Book in 1961. He explained the inspiration for that book as follows:

"One night I was coming home on the subway, and I did hear a cricket chirp in the Times Square subway station. The story formed in my mind within minutes. An author is very thankful for minutes like those, although they happen all too infrequently."

He wrote several sequels and other books in that series, which totaled seven books in all:

His other books include:

  • The Genie of Sutton Place
  • Oscar Lobster's Fair Exchange


[edit] External links

Biography from the Educational Paperback Association


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