Margot Apple
, b. 1946
Children’s book illustrator and author, Margot Apple was born in Detroit, USA. A shy child with a vivid imagination, she loved stories, but was a poor reader and responded to the illustrations more than the written text. Her mother was a commercial artist, and both her parents encouraged Apple to enrol in drawing classes and go on to study Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute in New York. After experimenting with pottery and a variety of other jobs as a waitress, bus driver, and greeting card designer, she began to illustrate children’s books.
Since the 1970s she has illustrated over fifty picture and chapter books, working predominantly in coloured pencil. She has collaborated repeatedly with several authors, including Nancy Shaw, Judy Delton and Jessie Haas. In the 1990s, she published two books of her own, Blanket (1990) and Brave Martha (1999). She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Western Massachusetts Illustrators' Guild.
Source:
Profile at biography.jrank.org (accessed: December 10, 2019)
Bio prepared by Miriam Riverlea, University of New England, mriverlea@gmail.com
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