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Nonny Hogrogian (1932-)
Nonny Hogrogian, born in New York, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in fine arts from Hunter College in 1953, and studied woodcutting under Antonio Frasconi at the New School for Social Research in 1957. She worked as a production assistant and designer in the children’s literature department of Thomas Y. Crowell. Since then she has divided her time between freelance illustration and serving as designer for children’s books, first at Holt, Rinehart and Winston and later Charles Scribner’s Sons. In 1971 she married David Kherdian, a poet whose work she illustrates. Hogrogian is one of only five people to be awarded the Caldecott Medal twice. She illustrated I.B. Singer’s The Fearsome Inn (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967).
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