Background
He was born in Aker as a son of Ferdinand Schjelderup and his wife Marie Leigh Vogt.
He was born in Aker as a son of Ferdinand Schjelderup and his wife Marie Leigh Vogt.
That same year he met American singer Anne Brown, who moved with him to Oslo where the couple eventually married. Schjelderup published his first essay in 1952 and then wrote books in the field of sports and on Norwegian nature until his death on May 28, 2006 at the age of 86.