Burl ives life biography of diana

Born Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, June 14, , in Hunt Township, Jasper County, IL; son of Frank and Cordelia White Ives; married Helen Payne Ehrlich, (divorced, ); married Dorothy Koster, ; children: (first marriage) Alexander.

Education: Attended Eastern Illinois State Teachers College, , and New York University, Addresses: c/o Beakel and Jennings Agency, N. Canon Dr., Suite , Beverly Hills, CA

Throughout his life and career Burl Ives was many things; he was a folk singer, actor, storyteller, writer, and anthologist.

His real role, however, was, as Stephen Holden wrote in the New York Times, as "an American sentimentalist in the tradition of Carl Sandburg and Norman Rockwell." Ives himself wrote, in his preface to Burl Ives' Tales of America, "I was born in America, I grew up in America, and I went to school in America I tramped the country from one end to the other with my guitar over my shoulder [and] I discovered how dramatic and thrilling the true history of our country really