A replica of Kermit the Frog is displayed at the Birthplace of Kermit the Frog Museum in Leland, Miss., on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (Ayrton Breckenridge/Clarion Ledger) For someone as culturally ...

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 ...

"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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...