Their relationship, which could have ended with them both being committed to a mental institution, was tumultuous. She may also have been a little distracted by her own turbulent love life.īrown, who never married although was briefly engaged, had a long-term affair with married man William Gaston, a summer romance with fellow author Preston Schoyer and in 1940, began a long-term relationship with Blanche Oelrichs - a feminist poet playwright, actress, and the former wife of John Barrymore. I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he's little.' The writer never had children herself, and once told a Life reporter in 1946, 'I don't especially like children.
She also harbored a deep dislike of children, her main target audience. Her most famous work, Goodnight Moon (pictured) sold more than 14 million copies, making her one of the best selling American children's authors ever
Hurd estuvo casado con la escritora Edith Thacher Hurd, con quien también creó muchos libros que se convirtieron en favoritos de los niños.Millions of parents have relied on Margaret Wise Brown classic books for a bedtime story for their little ones. Allí fue donde desarrolló su estilo característico, compuesto de colores de fuerte contraste. Estudió pintura en París en los años 1930 con Fernand Léger, entre otros. A native of New York City, he lived most of his life in Vermont and California.Ĭlement Hurd (1908–1988) se graduó de Yale University. He illustrated more than one hundred books, many of them with his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd, including the Johnny Lion books, The Day the Sun Danced, and The Merry Chase. After his return to the United States in 1935, he began to work in children's books. He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and others in the early 1930s. Brown include My World Christmas in the Barn The Dead Bird North, South, East, West and Good Day, Good Night.Ĭlement Hurd (1908–1988) is best known for illustrating Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, the classic picture books by Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret Wise Brown, cherished for her unique ability to convey a child’s experience and perspective of the world, transformed the landscape of children’s literature with such beloved classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.
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