Barbara Cooney (1917–2000)
Autor(a) de Miss Rumphius
About the Author
Barbara Cooney and her twin brother were born on 6 August 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, in the Bossert Hotel. She grew up on Long Island, but spent her summers as a child in Maine. Cooney attended a boarding school as a child. Cooney graduated from Smith College in 1938 and studied lithography and mostrar mais etching at Art Students League in New York. Just one year after graduation, she had her first commission, the illustrations for Ake and His World by Bertil Malmberg. Recalling an earlier trip to Germany before the war and the horrors that she had seen there, she felt compelled to join the Women's Army Corps during the summer of 1942. She enrolled in officer training and achieved the rank of second lieutenant, but was honorably discharged the following spring because of marriage pregnancy. The couple bought a farm in Pepperell, Massachusetts where they ran a children's camp during the summer months. By this time, Cooney was illustrating several books a year and wrote one now and then. It was for her adaptation of Chaucer's The Nun Priest's Tale that she won the prestigious Caldecott Medal, the highest honor given for illustrated children's books in the United States, in 1959. Twenty-one years later, Cooney again won the Caldecott Medal for Ox-Cart Man written by Donald Hall. In 1993, Ms. Cooney deposited more than 400 pieces of original art from 21 of her books in the Northeastern Children's Literature Collection, a part of the University Libraries' Archives and Special Collections. Works from this collection and from the artist's private collection are shown in this exhibit. Miss Rumphius won the National Book Award in 1983 and inspired the creation of the Maine Library Association's Lupine Award. Cooney died on 14 March, 2000 at the age of 83. Her last book was Basket Moon published in September of 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Barbara Cooney
The courtship, merry marriage, and feast of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, to which is added The doleful death of Cock… (1965) 27 exemplares
Chanticleer and the Fox. Adapted From the Canterbuy Tales. Caldecott Award Winner (1958) 8 exemplares
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers --and More Inspiring Tales [2005 animated short] (2005) — Original book — 5 exemplares
Snow White and Rose Red 1 exemplar
Kantekleer En Die Jakkals 1 exemplar
King of Wreck island 1 exemplar
A Garland of Games & other diversions 1 exemplar
Associated Works
From Sea to Shining Sea A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs (1993) — Ilustrador — 677 exemplares
Tortillitas para Mamá and Other Nursery Rhymes (Bilingual Edition in Spanish and English) (1981) — Ilustrador — 296 exemplares
Louhi, Witch of North Farm: A Story From Finland's Epic Poem 'The Kalevala' (1986) — Ilustrador — 95 exemplares
Friends with God; stories and prayers of the Marshall family (1900) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 78 exemplares
The Glorious Flight, Ox-Cart Man, A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2006) — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, September 1980 — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1917-08-06
- Data de falecimento
- 2000-03-10
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Damariscotta, Maine, USA
- Locais de residência
- Long Island, New York, USA
Maine, USA - Educação
- Smith College (History)
- Ocupações
- children's book author
children's book illustrator - Relações
- Murchie, Guy (husband)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Barbara Cooney was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her father was a stockbroker and her mother was an artist who encouraged Barbara's talent for art. She attended private schools and graduated from Smith College before briefly attending art school in New York. A year later, she got her first commission: the illustrations for Ake and His World (1940) by Bertil Malmberg. During World War II, Barbara served in the Women’s Army Corps and married Guy Murchie in 1944. They had two children. The couple later divorced and Barbara remarried in 1949 to Charles T. Porter, a physician, with whom she had two children. In the course of her long career, Barbara Cooney illustrated more than 100 books. After receiving her second Caldecott award, she began to write books as well. In her final years, she lived in a house in Maine overlooking the sea.
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- 31
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- Membros
- 9,348
- Popularidade
- #2,579
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 269
- ISBN
- 133
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 7