By David Michaelis.

Harper
16 October, 2007
ISBN: 0066213932

Cover Quote by Ware:

"In coming years, when Charles Schulz's artistic accomplishment is seen as the singular, revolutionary, and purely american thing that it is, this biography will surely be one of the main reasons why. Fifty years of Peanuts comic strips are here gently turned over to reveal the thready biographical tapestry which stitched together the lightly-knotted ink lines of Charles Schulz's little repertory company for almost two-thirds of his life. [Schulz] once suggest[ed] that anyone who wanted to know anything about him as a person could find all the answers in his comic strip; [now,] David Michaelis' book provides just this unprecedented and very adult key to Schulz; the moving and surprising revelations appear chapter after chapter, page after page. For this complicated, generous, humble, yet fiercely serious artist, Michaelis has written a like biography, exhaustively researched and respectful, presenting a man as worthy of awe as he was disarmingly human. Even if you already love Peanuts, after you read this book you will come to know and more deeply understand the unquestionable genius that went into every single line that Charles Schulz ever drew."

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