Editing Shel Silverstein (section)

==Personal life==
From around 1967 to 1975, Silverstein lived on a houseboat in [[Sausalito, California]]. He also owned homes on [[Martha's Vineyard|Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts]]; [[Greenwich Village|Greenwich Village, New York]]; and [[Key West, Florida]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barmann |first=Jay |date=March 3, 2020 |title=Shel Silverstein's Sausalito Houseboat Hits the Market Again, Post Renovation |url=https://sfist.com/2020/03/03/shel-silversteins-sausalito-houseboat-hits-the-market-again-post-renovation/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304134008/https://sfist.com/2020/03/03/shel-silversteins-sausalito-houseboat-hits-the-market-again-post-renovation/ |archive-date=March 4, 2020 |access-date=March 5, 2020 |website=SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports |language=en}}</ref> He never married, and according to the 2007 biography ''A Boy Named Shel'', had sex with "hundreds, perhaps thousands of women".<ref name="rogak" /> He was also a frequent presence at [[Hugh Hefner]]'s [[Playboy Mansion]] and [[Playboy Club]]s.

Silverstein met a woman from Sausalito named Susan Taylor Hastings at the Playboy Mansion,<ref name="Chicagoly-2016">{{Cite web |last=Ferguson |first=Jamie Lynn |date=June 15, 2016 |title=Portrait of an Artist |url=https://chicagolymag.com/web/2016/06/portrait-of-an-artist/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101061605/https://chicagolymag.com/web/2016/06/portrait-of-an-artist/ |archive-date=November 1, 2017 |access-date=March 4, 2020 |website=Chicagoly Magazine}}</ref> and they had a daughter named Shoshanna Jordan Hastings (b. June 30, 1970).<ref name="Rogak, pp. 102, 117">Rogak, pp. 102, 117</ref> Susan died on June 29, 1975, one day before Shoshanna's fifth birthday,<ref name="Rogak, pp. 102, 117" /> and Shoshanna went to live with her uncle and aunt in [[Baltimore, Maryland]].<ref name="Chicagoly-2016" /> Shoshanna died of a [[cerebral aneurysm]] on April 24, 1982, at age 11.<ref>Gold, p. 192</ref> Silverstein's 1981 book ''A Light in the Attic'' is dedicated to her.<ref name="Chicagoly-2016" /> Silverstein later met Key West native Sarah Spencer, who drove a tourist train and inspired Silverstein's song "The Great Conch Train Robbery".<ref name="many">{{Cite web |last=Stacy Bee |date=May 17, 2009 |title=The Many Sides of Shel Silverstein |url=http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/the-many-sides-of-shel-silverstein/}}</ref><ref name="gold">{{Cite book |last=Gold |first=Marv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SacsAQAAIAAJ&q=shoshanna+son:+matthew |title=Silverstein and Me: A Memoir |publisher=Red Hen Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-59709-151-0 |access-date=May 24, 2010 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref name="timesu">{{Cite news |last=Eck, Michael |date=January 27, 2008 |title='Boy Named Shel' Shows Diverse Life |work=[[Times Union (Albany)|Times Union]] |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-173907043.html |url-status=dead |access-date=May 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515222057/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-173907043.html |archive-date=May 15, 2013}} {{subscription required}}</ref> They had a son named Matthew De Ver (b. November 10, 1984),<ref>{{Cite web |last=De Ver |first=Matthew |date=February 28, 2024 |title=Matthew De Ver |url=https://matthewdevermusic.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128223213/https://matthewdevermusic.com/ |archive-date=November 28, 2023 |access-date=February 28, 2024}}</ref> who later became a [[New York City]]–based songwriter and producer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Matthew de Ver Presents 'The Gift & The Wound' + 'The Climb' |url=https://skopemag.com/2018/05/23/matthew-de-ver-presents-the-gift-the-wound-the-climb |access-date=June 15, 2021 |website=SkopeMag.com|date=May 23, 2018 }}</ref>