Talk:William Steig

Death

Does anyone know how he died? Mace 17:46, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Dude was old. That'll usually catch up with you eventually. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.147.180.200 (talk) 22:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

No Idea. This is 2023. No one cares. Do you still care??

Like literally, it's been 17 years. So yeah. 23.17.107.172 (talk) 22:10, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Polish?

This article, from the authors web site says his father was Austrian:

http://www.williamsteig.com/williamsteig.htm

The article was written before his death.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Reniam (talk • contribs) 03:02, 16 November 2006‎ (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 06:26, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Resolved

Triumphant Abel's Island

Today I removed this unreferenced note from the lead.

• The New York Times said Steig was "triumphant in the quality of his prose."

Evidently that is from George A. Woods NYT review of Abel's Island (Praise for Abel's Island at publisher Macmillan US).

This is a cherry picked from the review of one particular book, albeit one it identifies as "the best book of the year". The complete sentence does praise both writing and illustration, as we say in the lead. ("And so is Mr. Steig triumphant in the quality of his prose-nor has he stinted on the quality and quantity of his illustrations.") Maybe it fits somewhere. --P64 (talk) 22:12, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Is the fact that he was a follower of Wilhelm Reich worth mentioning? I would think so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.217.149.46 (talk) 18:47, 2 March 2014 (UTC)