Norton Juster, the celebrated children's author who fashioned a world of adventure and punning punditry in the million-selling classic The Phantom Tollbooth and remained true to his wide-eyed self in such favourites as The Dot And The Line and Stark Naked, has died at 91. Juster's death was confirmed on Tuesday by a spokesperson for Random House Children's Books, who did not immediately provide details. Juster's friend and fellow author Mo Willems tweeted on Tuesday that Juster "ran out of stories” and died "peacefully” the night before. Juster wrote 'The Phantom Tollbooth' while working as an architect in New York after serving in the US Navy, according to a biography provided by Random House. "The funny thing is that many of the things I was thinking about for that book did find their way into The Phantom Tollbooth, " he wrote in 1999.

Source: The Star March 11, 2021 09:43 UTC