Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz.

JOHNSON, Rheta Grimsley. (Charles M. Schulz).

Item Number: 96135

New York: Pharos Books, 1989.

First edition of Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s biography of Peanuts’ creator Charles M. Schulz. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Charles M. Schulz. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Stan Carroll.

American columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson earned a nationwide reputation for illuminating the thoughts and feelings of the subjects she interviewed with grace and insight for King Features Syndicate of New York. Notoriously private, Charles Schulz never before allowed such and intimate portrait of himself to appear in print. Johnson explores no only his creation and development of Charlie Brown, but Schulz's wartime experiences, lifelong battle with depression, and strong moral and ethical code with its deep grounding in fundamentalist region.