Peter, Paul, and Mary gave us Puff the Magic Dragon, a timeless song about the magic of youth. Unsurprisingly, it was based on a poem by a 19-year-old Cornell student, Leonard Lipton. Whether it's on ...

Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic Dragon” — a ballad performed by the trio Peter, Paul and Mary that has ...

Thank goodness for dinner parties! Not only did we enjoy a superb meal and fine wines, but I got the inspiration for this column. One of the trivia buff guests regaled me with his story of a ...

Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton, illus. by Eric Puybaret. Sterling, $26.95 (14p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8711-9 Puybaret’s capricious paintings combine elegantly with pop-up engineering by Bruce Foster in a ...

Puff The Magic Dragonwas a college student named Lenny Lipton. "He wrote the original poem, it was only half completed, it didn't have the element in it that you would have expected me to insert, "The ...