Charles M. Schulz Set - Schulz and Peanuts A Biography & Good Grief

Two Hardback Set - Both Authorized- Schulz and Peanuts copyright 2007 (First Edition) with 255 pages, black & white photographs and illustrations of Peanuts. - Charles Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind at once a creation story, a portrait of a native genius, and a chronicle contrasting the private man with the central role he played in shaping the national imagination. It is the most American of How a barber's son grew up from modest beginnings to realize his dream of creating a newspaper comic strip. How he chose themes never before attempted in mainstream cartoons-loneliness, isolation, melancholy, the unending search for love-always lightening the darker side with laughter and mingling the old fashioned sweetness of childhood with a very adult and modern awareness of the bitterness of life. Based on years of research, including exclusive interviews with the cartoonist's family, friends, and colleagues, unprecedented access to his studio and business archives, and new caches of personal letters and drawings. - Book 2). Good Grief - The Story of Charles M. Schulz by Pharos Books, copyright 1989 (First Edition) with 256 pages, also with black & white photos. Author Johnson explores Schulz's waretime experience, his development and creation of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and friends, his lifetime battle with depression and agoraphobia, his strong yet idiosyncratic moral and ethical code with its deep grounding in fundamentalist religion. Most touchingly, readers will learn the truth about the mysterious "Little Red-Haired Girl" whom Charles Brown will always pursue and Charles Schulz will never draw. This is a full authorized portrait. Mr. Schulz contributed much of his own thoughts and energy to this project.