"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Ballantine Books ... in 2013"--Title page verso. Jim Henson was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, ...

Brian Jay Jones’ biography of Jim Henson, simply titled “Jim Henson: The Biography,” is almost sublime in its sweetness, which, considering the subject of the work, is entirely appropriate.The creator ...

If ever you had a single question about the felt magic that Jim Henson managed to create, chances are Brian Jay Jones’ sweeping new biography of the puppeteer will answer it. Wondered why Miss Piggy ...

Lisa Henson tells PEOPLE she has been in a "slow-motion development deal" with Disney for a "fantastical" Jim Henson biopic Scott Huver is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been writing about ...

The trouble with writing a biography about a figure as boundlessly creative as Jim Henson – say, Brian Jay Jones’ Jim Henson: The Biography from 2013 – is that the book can go only so far in conveying ...

Jim Henson steps in front of the camera, wearing a Steve Jobs–style black turtleneck, a detail that seems to foreshadow the early death we now know awaited him. At the time of the interview, the ...

The Sesame Street auteur who made the Muppets into a global entertainment and merchandising juggernaut seems almost as winsome as his cute, furry creations in this adulatory biography. Jones ...

“Jim Henson: The Biography” (Ballantine Books), by Brian Jay Jones. If ever you had a single question about the felt magic Jim Henson managed to create, chances are Brian Jay Jones’ sweeping new ...