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William Pène DuBois (1916-1993)
William Pène DuBois, born in Nutley, NJ, and son of American painter and art critic Guy Pène DuBois, was both an author and illustrator. He received most of his education in France at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles where the rigorous discipline gave him the sense of order and careful planning evident in the precision of his work. From 1953 to 1960, he worked with George Plimpton as the Art Editor for The Paris Review. He illustrated I.B. Singer’s The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China (Harper & Row, 1971). Among the highlights of his career was winning the Newbery Award in 1948 for The Twenty-One Ballons, and Caldecott Honors in 1952 and 1957 for Bear Party and The Lion, respectively.
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