Juster alludes to a lot of this in The Phantom Tollbooth: Dr. The decades after World War II saw the development of the suburbs and a thriving middle class, as well as a general speeding-up of daily life. While Milo is both too young and self-involved to give any information about the real world he inhabits, the rapidly changing American midcentury landscape looms over the novel-and not in a favorable way. Juster died in March of 2021 of complications related to a stroke. He taught architecture at Hampshire College and also cofounded an architecture firm. Despite the fact that The Phantom Tollbooth has been considered a classic for decades (and the fact that Juster also wrote the wildly popular picture book The Dot and the Line, which was adapted into a 10-minute short by Chuck Jones of Looney Tunes fame), Juster mostly focused on his architecture career. Feiffer’s girlfriend was the one to take Tollbooth to a publisher. The book’s illustrator, Jules Feiffer, lived in the apartment below Juster’s. Instead, inspired by his own experiences as a kid and a conversation with a child at a restaurant about what the biggest number is, Juster wrote The Phantom Tollbooth. The Phantom Tollbooth came about when Juster received a grant to write a children’s book on urban planning. During these years, he wrote a children’s book that was never published. While in the Navy, Juster began doing small watercolors of fantastical creatures and writing in his downtime-though he was asked to stop. He joined the Navy in the mid-1950s as a young man. Like his father, he pursued a career in architecture. Juster was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrant parents.
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