![]() ![]() In 1917-18 he served in France with the 40th Engineers, Camouflage Section. First edition, 1940īorn in New York, Lawson grew up in New Jersey, graduated from art school in 1914 at the beginning of World War I, and worked as a freelance artist for several popular magazines, including Harper’s Weekly and, after the war, Delineator and Designer. ![]() They Were Strong And Good, Robert Lawson. White’s Sword in the Stone (1939) to illustrations for Ginn’s Mathematics for Success (1952).īy 1957, when the Great Wheel was published posthumously, he had written and illustrated twenty books and illustrated forty-six for other authors, in addition to the considerable number of drawings and etchings published before his success as a writer and illustrator for children. Lawson’s contributions ranged from endpapers for T. This feat, which no one has as yet duplicated, makes his work particularly significant in the context of American culture as well as in the history of publishing. One of the most prolific and notable figures in American children’s literature during the first half of the twentieth century, Robert Lawson achieved distinction both as an illustrator and as an author, winning the Caldecott Medal in 1941 for They Were Strong and Good, a picturebook tribute to his forebears, and the Newbery Medal in 1945 for Rabbit Hill, the story of an animal community and its relationship to the New Folks who come to the neighborhood. American author and illustrator, 1892-1957. ![]()
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