Vera B. Williams (1927–2015)
Autor(a) de A Chair for My Mother
About the Author
Vera Baker Williams was born on January 28, 1927 in Hollywood, California. She studied at the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where she received a BFA in graphic arts. She co-found the Gate Hill Cooperative and the Collaberg School, in Stony mostrar mais Point, New York. She worked as a teacher and artist before becoming a writer and illustrator of children's books. She won a Caldecott Medal award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book award in the picture book category in 1983 for A Chair for My Mother, a Caldecott Medal award in 1991 for "More More More" Said the Baby: Three Love Stories, the Boston Globe-Horn Book award in fiction in 1994 for Scooter, and the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2009. She was a member of the executive committee of the War Resisters League from 1984 to 1987, and served a month at a federal penitentiary for participating in a women's peaceful blockade of the Pentagon. She died on October 16, 2015 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Vera B. Williams
Five Stories 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Autor — 1,548 exemplares
Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Authors & Illustrators (Reading Rainbow Book) (1992) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 167 exemplares
Long Walks and Intimate Talks: Stories, Poems and Paintings (Women & Peace) (1991) — algumas edições — 27 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Williams, Vera B.
- Nome legal
- Williams, Vera Baker
- Outros nomes
- WILLIAMS, Vera
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-01-28
- Data de falecimento
- 2015-10-16
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Narrowsburg, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Educação
- Black Mountain College (BFA|1949 | graphic art)
- Ocupações
- illustrator
teacher
graphic artist
cook - Relações
- Rosenblum, Naomi (sister)
Rosenblum, Nina (niece) - Organizações
- Gates Hill (co-founder)
Leslie College, Cambridge, Massachusetts (teacher)
War Resisters League - Prémios e menções honrosas
- NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature (2009)
Regina Medal (2008)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 11,146
- Popularidade
- #2,119
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 401
- ISBN
- 199
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 4