Louise Emma Fatio Duvoisin (August 18, 1904 – July 26, 1993) was a Swiss-born American writer of
children's books
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. Many were created in collaboration with her husband Roger Duvoisin, a Swiss-born illustrator, and she is known best for their
picture book
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series Happy Lion. ''The Happy Lion'' (1954), first in the series, won the inaugural, 1956 in its German-language translation (').
, Switzerland, and educated in Geneva. She emigrated to the United States in 1925 and became a naturalized citizen in 1938.
Fatio's earliest work in the U.S.
Library of Congress
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catalog is ''The Christmas forest'', a 48-page book illustrated by Duvoisin, with a 1950 copyright date."The Christmas forest" Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-07-16. It was published by
Aladdin Paperbacks
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It was established by Jean E. Karl at Atheneum Books where she was the founding director of the children's department (1961). Atheneum merged with or was a ...
no earlier than 1967, perhaps earlier in hardcover. Her first book published was ''The Happy Lion'' in 1954.
A resident of
Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey
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, Fatio died on July 26, 1993, at the age of 89 at a nursing home in
Courier News
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Notable employees
*John Curley, former presid ...
'', July 28, 1993. Accessed April 8, 2023, via
Newspapers.com
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In November 2018, ...
. "Louise Emma Fatio Duvoisin, 89, an award-winning author of children's books and stories, died Monday (July 26, 1993) at King James Convalescent Center in the Somerset section of Franklin.... She lived in Peapack-Gladstone before moving to Chester."