Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian Jay Jones spent years researching the life of Jim Henson, interviewing family members, performers and longtime collaborators ...

The following decade saw the couple marry and welcome five children They never officially divorced, but the pair separated in 1986, and maintained a close friendship in the years that followed through ...

About five years before he published "Jim Henson: The Biography," author Brian Jay Jones found himself going down a rabbit hole online. Jones, who describes himself as part of the “Muppet Generation,” ...

"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, ...

If Jim Henson was alive, he'd turn 90 years old on Sept 24 of this year, but he died at the rather young age of 53 on May 16, 1990. Although it's now been 36 years since he passed away, the legacy of ...

(AP) - "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 ...

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 may have created some of the most wholesome characters in television history, but his real-life love story was less than picture-perfect. Biographer Brian Jay Jones revealed on “Nostalgia ...

Go ahead, try and pick a favorite Muppet. Dare you. Fozzie, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, Animal, Kermit, Grover, Bert and/or Ernie – it’s impossible. Too many great ones. I mean, I even forgot to mention Big ...

Still, there were never any truly hard feelings between Jim and Jane Henson, biographer Brian Jay Jones shares Jim Henson first met wife Jane as students at the University of Maryland in the 1950s The ...