TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Brian Jay
TI  - Jim Henson: the biography 
SN  - 9780345526113
AV  - PN1982.H46 J66 2013
U1  - 791.4302/33092B 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Henson, Jim.
KW  - Muppet show (Television program)
KW  - Sesame Street (Television program)
KW  - Puppeteers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Television producers and directors
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [497]-557)  and index
N2  - For the first time ever - a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters he created: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets made Jim Henson a household name, but they were only part of his remarkable story. This extraordinary biography - written with the generous cooperation of the Henson family - covers the full arc of Henson's all-too-brief life: from his childhood in Leland, Mississippi, through the years of burgeoning fame in Washington D.C., New York, and London, to the decade of international celebrity that preceded his untimely death at age fifty-three
ER  -