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    BOOKS:
    Aaseng, Nathan. Jim Henson Muppet Master; Children’s Biography. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1988.

    Abelson, Danny. The Muppets Take Manhattan-A Movie Storybook. New York: Muppet Press/Random House, Inc., 1984.

    Abrams, Harry N. The Muppet Show Book. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1978.

    Bacon, Matt; Henson, Brian (introduction). No Strings Attached:The Inside Story of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. USA-Macmillan, Inc., 1997.

    Bailey, Joe. Memoirs of a Muppets Writer. Walnut Press, 2011.

    Beard, Henry. Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./Muppet Press, Pub.,1981.

    Beard, Henry; Frith, Michael K. Miss Piggy’s Treasury of Art Masterpieces, From the Kermitage Collection. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston Pub., 1984. 

    Block, Paula M. and Terry J. Erdmann. Jim Henson’s Labyrinth — The Ultimate Visual History. San Rafael: Insight Editions, 2016.

    Borgenicht, David. Sesame Street Unpaved. New York: Hyperion, Pu

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    Jim Henson

    American puppeteer (1936–1990)

    This article is about the puppeteer. For the company he co-founded, see The Jim Henson Company. For the man who escaped slavery, see Jim Henson (memorialist).

    James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, animator, actor, and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Henson was also well known for creating Fraggle Rock (1983–1987) and as the director of The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986).

    Born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in both Leland, Mississippi, and University Park, Maryland, Henson began developing puppets in high school. He created Sam and Friends (1955–1961), a short-form comedy television program on WRC-TV, while he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, in collaboration with fellow student Jane Nebel. Henson and Nebel co-founded Muppets, Inc. – now The Jim Henson Company – in 1958, and married less tha

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    In 1954, Jim Henson entered the University of Maryland as a major in studio art. The multitude of artwork that survives from this point in Jim’s career indicates that he had a colorful visual imagination, a sharp eye for detail, and a creative knack for design. As a freshman at the University of Maryland, Jim was given the opportunity hone his puppetry skills during a course in the Home Economics Department, as well as through practical experience. His earliest endeavors into television took place immediately before and during his time as an undergraduate at UMD.  While a student in a puppetry class, he met fellow University of Maryland student Jane Nebel, who was an early partner in his television shows and would later become his wife.

    Following a short-lived morning puppet segment on a local Washington station, Jim was hired bygd WRC-TV in 1955 to create a five-minute puppet show that would air twice nightly.  Entitled Sam and Friends, this pro