Shel was born in Chcago, Ilinois on September 25, 1930, to Helen and Nathan Silverstein. He grew up in a rural place in Chicago, and began writing very youg.
He wanted to be a baseball player but he was terrible at hitting the ball with the bat. Also he wanted to be popular around girls but he didn't atrracted them since he couldn't dance very well. (I...
it was hard because he was always ignored by girls. he dreamed of becoming a ball player but he was not athletic so at the age of 12 he began wriing and drawing.