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__ **﻿ ** Jack Prelusky __

BORN: September 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York DIED: still living

ABOUT HIS LIFE: He attended New York public schools, and later the High School of Music and Art and Hunter College. Prelutsky, who has also worked as a busboy, furniture mover, folk singer, and cab driver, claims that he hated poetry in grade school because of the way it was taught.

 ABOUT HIS WORK: Jack Prelutsky is the author of more than 50 poetry collections including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (1976), The Mean Old Mean Hyena (1978), and Something BIG Has Been Here (1990). He has also compiled numerous children's anthologies comprising poems of others.