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Miriam E. Mason
Miriam Evangeline Mason (1900 – 1973) was an American writer best known for her books for children. Biography Mason was born on January 23, 1900, in Goshen, Indiana. Her parents, Benjamin Franklin Mason and Laura Gessaman Mason, were farmers with a family of seven."Miriam Evangeline Mason." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2007. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 15 Mar. 2023. Mason was Lutheran."Miriam E(vangeline) Mason (1900-)." Something About the Author, edited by Anne Commire, vol. 2, Gale, 1971, pp. 183-185. Gale Literature: Something About the Author. Accessed 15 Mar. 2023. When she was a student, she lived in Martinsville, Indiana. She attended Martinsville High School, Indiana University, the University of Missouri, and Ball State University. She married M.M. Swain in 1924. They divorced. She had one daughter, Kathleen. Mason taught for several years and also worked in advertising and publishing. Her books were published under her maiden name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goshen, Indiana
Goshen ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. It is the smaller of the two principal cities of the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the northern part of Indiana near the Michigan border, in a region known as Michiana. Goshen is located 10 miles southeast of Elkhart, Indiana, Elkhart, 25 miles southeast of South Bend, Indiana, South Bend, 120 miles east of Chicago, and 150 miles north of Indianapolis. The population was 34,517 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The city is known as an extremely prominent recreational vehicle and accessories manufacturing center, the home of Goshen College, a small Mennonite liberal arts college, and the Elkhart County 4-H Fair, the largest county fair in the United States. History Before the arrival of white colonists, the land that is today Goshen, Indiana, was populated by Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence William Anderson
Clarence William Anderson (1891–1971), born in Wahoo, Nebraska, and known professionally as C.W. Anderson, was a writer and illustrator of children's books. Anderson had an interest in horses and drawing. When he wasn't out riding horses, he was drawing them, taking great interest in their bone structure and conformation. Anderson started his career by illustrating for other authors, but eventually began developing texts to accompany his realistic and lively black and white drawings. He is best known for his "Billy and Blaze" book series. The adventures of Billy and Blaze revolve around proper care of the horse, while teaching a lesson. Anderson would go to great lengths to give accurate information. He would even go on to write ''Heads Up, Heels Down'' as a training tool for young horse lovers. All of the stories Anderson wrote would be based on true stories or people that he knew-only the plots were fictitious. By the end of Anderson's life, he had written and illustrated ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Children's Writers
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Writers From Indiana
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People From Goshen, Indiana
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1973 Deaths
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1900 Births
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Paul Laune
Paul Sidney Laune (1899 in Woodward, Oklahoma – 1977) was a writer, painter and illustrator, known for his book covers and for paintings he did of rural Western U.S. pioneer scenes. He covered pioneers, ranch-life, quarter horses in his paintings. He painted five murals for the Plains Indians and Pioneers Museum in his hometown of Woodward, Oklahoma. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, Laune worked as an illustrator and art critic in New York. He also lived in Phoenix, Arizona, where he drew quarter horses and wrote a book on them. Among the more famous works he illustrated, were books in the Hardy Boys Mystery Series. Works *''The Forgotten Books Of Eden''. Illustrations, 1930. *''The Secret Warning''. Hardy Boys Mystery Series, illustrations, 1938 *''The Thirsty Pony'', author, cover art and illustrations, 1940 *''The Clue of the Broken Blade''. Hardy Boys Mystery Series #21, illustrator, 1942 *''The Flickering Torch Mystery''. Hardy Boys Mystery Series #22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyndy Szekeres
Cyndy Szekeres (born October 31, 1933) is an American children's book author and illustrator who has produced more than 130 books in the tradition of Beatrix Potter and Garth Williams. Best known for her anthropomorphic animal illustrations, she won the 1969 AIGA Award for ''Moon Mouse''. Biography Szekeres was born on October 31, 1933, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her parents were Stephen Paul, a toolmaker, and Anna (Ceplousky) Szekeres. Her father was a first-generation immigrant from Hungary, while her mother was a second-generation Lithuanian American. Szekeres grew up in the countryside of Fairfield County, where she developed a love of nature and began drawing in pencil at a very young age. Growing up in the later years of the Great Depression, she got her start drawing on brown paper bags. She drew inspiration from the work of N. C. Wyeth and Arthur Rackham. Encouraged by her father, who had heard advertising was a remunerative career, Szekeres studied art at the Prat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Geer
Charles Hand Geer (August 25, 1922 – December 7, 2008) was an American illustrator of children's books, two of which he wrote. He also designed numerous book jackets. Geer grew up on Long Island, New York, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and then served in the United States Navy during World War II. Following the war he attended art school at the Pratt Institute. Many of the buildings in his illustrations feature Second Empire architecture, with their characteristic mansard roofs. Geer lived until his death in 2008 in Rockland, Maine, where he enjoyed sailing and painting watercolors. Over the years he built several boats. Selected works As illustrator * Game of Statues' by Anne Stevenson * ''Schoolboy Johnson'' by John R. Tunis * ''Mystery at Redtop Hill,'' by Marjory Schwalje, 1965 * ''The Mad Scientists' Club,'' by Bertrand R. Brinley * ''The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club,'' by Bertrand R. Brinley * ''The Big Kerplop,'' by Bertrand R. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vee Guthrie
Vee Guthrie (July 27, 1920—July 6, 2012) was an American illustrator of children's books and cookbooks. Life and career Viola May Guthrie was born on July 27, 1920, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to parents Matthew Hardin Guthrie and Flora Guthrie (née Flora Hawthorn Taft). She had ancestry from Scotland and was related to the American colonial Guthries that descended from Clan Guthrie. She grew up in Long Island, New York. Guthrie graduated from The Women's College of Middlebury in 1942 with a Bachelor of Arts in American literature and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She also studied at the Art Students League of New York. In 1944, she worked as an engineering aid at Grumman Aircraft in Long Island, New York. During World War II, she became an officer of the WAVES and was stationed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard until 1946, when she was discharged. She then attended the Rhode Island School of Design with the support of the GI Bill. While living in Scarsdale, New York, she illustr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhenya Gay
Zhenya Gay (born Eleanor Byrnes) (1906–1978) was an American writer and illustrator. Biography Eleanor Barnes was born in 1906 in Norwood, Massachusetts and, died August 3, 1978. She attended Columbia University, where she studied with Solon Borglum and Winold Reiss. Her first artistic jobs as a freelancer were creating movie posters, newspaper advertisements, and costume designs for theater productions. She spent several years traveling and living in Europe, Mexico, and Central America. In 1954, she left New York City for the Catskill Mountains. She was in a relationship with Jan Gay (born Helen Reitman, daughter of Ben Reitman), a children's book writer. In addition to her book illustrations, Gay also created standalone artworks, including aquatints, lithographs, and etchings. Her works are held in the permanent collections of several museums, including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Seattle Art Museum. The Kerla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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