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He died on Monday at his Massachusetts home due
to complications from a recent stroke, the Times reported,
citing a statement from Juster's daughter.
Juster's friend, the children's author Mo Willems, said on
Twitter that Juster "ran out of stories & passed peacefully last
night."
"Norton's greatest work was himself: a tapestry of delightful
tales," Willems said.
"The Phantom Tollbooth" tells the tale of a bored young boy,
Milo, who is transported to a world of wonder when he drives
through a magical tollbooth that has arrived without warning at
his house.
Milo and his canine sidekick, Tock, a "watchdog" who has an
alarm clock embedded in his body, help save the Kingdom of
Wisdom before he returns to his real-world home, where he finds
his life now seems far more interesting.
Juster was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn in
1929, and wrote "The Phantom Tollbooth" while working as an
architect in the city after serving in the U.S. Navy, according
to a biography posted on the publishing company Scholastic's
website.
The original book included illustrations by Jules Feiffer, the
renowned editorial cartoonist, who lived in Juster's building at
the time.
Juster wrote several other books, including "The Dot and the
Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics," which depicted a lovelorn
straight line's effort to convince a dot to choose him over a
squiggly line.
(Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta and Joseph Ax in Princeton,
N.J.; Editing by Bill Berkrot and Matthew Lewis)
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