| 词条 | Margaret Bloy Graham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Margaret Bloy Graham (2 November 1920 – 22 January 2015) was a Canadian[1] creator of children's books, primarily an illustrator of picture books.[2] She is best known for her work on Harry the Dirty Dog (1956) and other books in the Harry series written by her then husband Gene Zion. Early lifeGraham was born in Toronto. Her father, Malcolm Robert Graham, was a physician and her mother Florence (née Bloy) was a nurse. When Graham was one, the family moved to Sandwich, Ontario (now part of Windsor), where her father became the superintendent of the sanatorium. Her childhood was spent in Ontario, but she spent her summer holidays abroad, either with her grandfather in England or an aunt in the United States. The family returned to Toronto when she was ten. She attended Saturday morning classes at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Graham majored in art history at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1943. After graduation, she attended a summer course at the venerable Art Students League in New York City. She later supplemented her studies at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and also the New School for Social Research.
She decided to stay in New York to establish a career as a commercial artist. From 1944 to 1945 she worked as a ship draftsman for Gibbs & Cox and in 1946 she started work in the art department of Condé Nast Publications, where she remained until 1956. Writer and illustratorGraham met her first husband Gene Zion (1913-1975) at Condé Nast. They were married in July 1948. Zion was urged by his new wife and also his editor, Ursula Nordstrom of Harper and Brothers, to write children's books. He remembers that it was Graham’s sketch of children gathering apples in an orchard, done several years earlier in Canada, that inspired his first book, All Falling Down (1951). The husband-and-wife team became famous for the Harry series of books, beginning with Harry the Dirty Dog (1956) and followed by No Roses for Harry! (1958), Harry and the Lady Next Door (1960) and Harry By the Sea (1965). The collaboration ended with their divorce in 1968. Graham received two Caldecott Honors, one for her work on All Falling Down, the second for her work on The Storm Book.[3]
Graham launched her own writing career around the time of the divorce with Be Nice to Spiders (1967). She later developed her own canine hero, Benjy, through a series of books. Later lifeGraham was remarried in 1972 to a merchant-ship officer, Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.[4] She lived in retirement in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Major worksAuthor and Illustrator
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References1. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.slj.com/2015/01/industry-news/harry-the-dirty-dog-illustrator-margaret-bloy-graham-dies-at-94/|title="Harry the Dirty Dog" Illustrator Margaret Bloy Graham Dies at 94|newspaper=School Library Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-18}} 2. ^{{cite news|title=Margaret Bloy Graham obituary|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=173945907|accessdate=28 January 2015|publisher=The Boston Globe|date=24 January 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal | title=Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present | accessdate=17 July 2014}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.slj.com/2015/01/industry-news/harry-the-dirty-dog-illustrator-margaret-bloy-graham-dies-at-94/|title="Harry the Dirty Dog" Illustrator Margaret Bloy Graham Dies at 94|newspaper=School Library Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-18}} Biographical sources
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