Leonard Everett Fisher (1924–2024)
Autor(a) de The Great Wall of China
About the Author
Leonard Everett Fisher is a well-known and prolific author and illustrator of children's books. He has also written for adults and created illustrations for magazines. In addition, Fisher was dean of the Whitney School of Art and a visiting professor at a number of schools. Fisher was born in 1927 mostrar mais in the Bronx, New York, and started to draw as a small child. After graduating from high school, he studied at Brooklyn College and then entered the army where he worked with a mapmaker. He holds a B.F.A. and a M.F.A. from Yale University. The first book that Fisher illustrated was The Exploits of Xenophon, written by Geoffrey Household and published in 1955. Fisher then illustrated and wrote numerous books himself. He is well known for the Colonial Americans series, for the Nineteenth-Century America series for young adults, and for many other nonfiction works. He has written two works for adults-Masterpieces of American Painting (1985) and Remington and Russell (1986). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Leonard Everett Fisher
Tracks Across America: The Story of the American Railroad, 1825-1900 : With Photographs, Maps, and Drawings (1992) 32 exemplares
THE WIGMAKERS. WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY LEONARD EVERETT FISHER LIBRAY BINDING - New Copy Without the Dustjacket (1965) 3 exemplares
The Death of Evening Star; The Diary of a Young New England Whaler. by Leonard Everett Fisher (1972-06-03) (1807) 2 exemplares
The Life of Saint Paul 2 exemplares
PAPERMAKERS.|THE 1 exemplar
Colonial Craftsmen Group 4: The Papermakers, the Hatters, the Potters, the Tanners (Colonial Craftsmen, 4) (2000) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (1888) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 1,423 exemplares
The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East (1994) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 127 exemplares
The Spotted Pony: A Collection of Hanukkah Stories (1836) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 98 exemplares
All Times, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery (1980) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 52 exemplares
Exploring the Great River: Early Voyagers on the Mississippi from De Soto to La Salle (1969) — Ilustrador — 16 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 12, August 1980 — Ilustrador — 3 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1978 — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1924-06-24
- Data de falecimento
- 2024-03-02
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Westport, Connecticut, USA
- Educação
- Yale University
- Ocupações
- artist
illustrator
children's book author - Prémios e menções honrosas
- May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1995)
Regina Medal (1991)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 100
- Also by
- 47
- Membros
- 4,298
- Popularidade
- #5,844
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 73
- ISBN
- 158
- Línguas
- 1