Jack Prelutsky
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About
Children's poet who wrote The New Kid on the Block and Ride a Purple Pelican, among other popular works. He became the Poetry Foundation's U.S. Children's Poet Laureate in 2006.
Before Fame
He attended Hunter college, but dropped out after repeatedly failing English.
Trivia
He appeared on an episode of Arthur, an animated PBS series.
Family Life
He was born and raised in New York City. He married Carolynn Prelutsky in 1979.
Associated With
While working in a Greenwich Village bookstore, he met and befriended Bob Dylan.
