![]() from Yale, where he was a member of the Elizabethan Club and contributed to the literary magazine. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Selden received his B.A. An author is very thankful for minutes like those, although they happen all too infrequentl George Selden (1929-1989) was the author of The Cricket in Times Square, winner of the 1961 Newbery Honor and a timeless children's classic. The story formed in my mind within minutes. "One night I was coming home on the subway, and I did hear a cricket chirp in the Times Square subway station. People often asked Selden how he got the idea for The Cricket in Times Square. ![]() He spent three summer sessions at Columbia University and, after college, studied for a year in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. ![]() ![]() George Selden (1929-1989) was the author of The Cricket in Times Square, winner of the 1961 Newbery Honor and a timeless children's classic. ![]()
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