Chales M. Schultz was born on November 26th, 1922.He was born in Minneanopolis, Minnesota in the USA.
He was an only child. His real name was Charles Monroe Schultz and his nickname was Sparky.
His mother was Dena Halversan . She was Norwegian and she was a housewife. His father's name was Karl Schulz and he was from Germany. He worked as a barber.
Charles lived his childhood in Saint Paul and he attended ST. Paul Richard Gordon Elementary school. He was a shy , timid adolescent,because he was the youngest in the class at Central High School.
In 1951 he narried to Joyce Havelson and they had four children.
In 1948, he became successful when he published 18 cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post.
On October 2nd, 1950 the Peanuts appeared - Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang.
He received the Lester Patrick Trophy for the important service to the sport of ice hockey in the USA. In 1962 he received the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for Peanuts.in 1980 he received the Elzie Segar Society Awardand in 1996 the American Society of Artists honored him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On February 2000, he received the highest civilian award - The Congressional Gold Medal.
On December 14th,1990 he retired. He suffered from a serious illness. On February 12th, 2000 he died at the age of 79, from a colon cancer.
The world mourned the death of an outsatnding artist.
The Charles M. Schultz Museum and the Research Center opened on August 17th, 2002 to celebrate his life's work and art of cartooning.
This text was written by João Lopes, no 16, from class 6B
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