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George Selden Thompson (May 14, 1929 – December 5, 1989) was an American author, who wrote under the pseudonym Terry Andrews. He is best known for his 1961 book ''The Cricket in Times Square'', which received a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963〔("Lewis Carroll Shelf Award" ) at literatureplace.com (accessed April 27, 2011).〕 and a Newbery Honor. ==Biography== Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Thompson 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 about the character Chester Cricket and his friends, Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat. The first book, ''The Cricket in Times Square'', was a Newbery Honor Book in 1961. Selden 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."〔(Biography from the Educational Paperback Association. )〕 In 1974, under the pseudonym of Terry Andrews, Selden wrote the adult novel ''The Story of Harold,'' the story of a bisexual children's book author's various affairs, friendships, and mentoring of a lonely child, using the fairy tale of Rumplestilskin as an allegory. The book is very descriptive of the seventies, including the sexual revolution. Moderately graphic scenes of sado-masochism, orgies and other sexual acts, are narrated by Terry, the book's protagonist. It could be construed as somewhat autobiographical in the sense the author writes of a character who writes children's books. The relationship to the boy and also the author's own feelings regarding his own existence are the main keys in this novel.〔i (Claude J. Summers, "Andrews, Terry (1929-1989)". glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. Web site listing, 14 December 2002. )〕 Selden remained unmarried;〔 a resident of Greenwich Village in New York City, he died there at age 60 from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Selden (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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