16 pages of b&w photos 240 b&w comic strips throughout. Wyeth: A Biography and was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for. He won the 1999 Ambassador Book Award in the Autobiography and Biography category with N.C. Wyeth, Charles Schulz and Eleanor Roosevelt. As a biographer, Michealis wrote about N.C. This is a fascinating account of an artist who devoted his life to his work in the painful belief that it was all he had. David Tead Michaelis (born October 3, 1957) is an American writer since the late 1970s. And Michaelis makes plain the full impact of Peanuts' first decades and how much it puzzled and unnerved other cartoonists. Michaelis is especially strong in recounting Schulz's artistic development, teasing out the influences on his unique characterization of children. In one sequence, Snoopy's crush on a girl dog is revealed as a barely disguised retelling of the artist's extramarital affair. Nearly 250 Peanuts strips are woven into the biography, demonstrating just how much of his life story Schulz poured into the cartoon. ), given access to family, friends and personal papers, reveals the full extent of Schulz's depression, tracing its origins in his Minnesota childhood, with parents reluctant to encourage his artistic dreams and yearbook editors who scrapped his illustrations without explanation. It's widely known that he hated the name Peanuts, which was foisted on the strip by his syndicate.
For all the joy Charlie Brown and the gang gave readers over half a century, their creator, Charles Schulz, was a profoundly unhappy man.
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