American illustrator and author of children's books; won the first Caldecott Medal for Animals of the Bible in 1938.
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was born April 16, 1891 in Albany, New York. She graduated from the Teacher's College at Columbia University and studied illustration at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Students League. She taught high school for several years and in 1919 illustrated her first books, Japanese Prints by John Gould Fletcher, and Three Mulla-Mulgars, a children's book by Walter De la Mare. She always emphasized the importance of loving what you draw and throughout her long career illustrated many books for children, mostly about one of her favorite subjects, animals. In 1938 she received the first Caldecott Medal for Animals of the Bible by Helen Dean Fish. Dorothy Pulis Lathrop also illustrated the 1930 Newbery Award winner Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1929) by Rachel Field. During her prolific career she illustrated several of her own works, beginning with The Fairy Circus in 1931. She continued to write and illustrate children's books until the 1960s. Dorothy Pulis Lathrop died on December 30, 1980 in Falls Village, CT.Biographical Sources:Something About the Author vol. 14, pp. 116-120.Something About the Author vol. 24, p. 140.
Dorothy Lathrop, a prominent illustrator of children's books, was born in Albany, NY. in 1891 and was trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1938 Lathrop was awared the first Caldecott Award for her illustrations in Animals of the Bible. She was known for the accuracy of her drawings for books about animals and nature. Lathrop died in Falls Village, Conn. in 1981.
Epithet: author and illustrator
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was born April 16, 1891 in Albany, New York. She graduated from the Teacher's College at Columbia University and studied illustration at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Students League. She taught high school for several years and in 1919 illustrated her first books, Japanese Prints by John Gould Fletcher, and Three Mulla-Mulgars, a children's book by Walter De la Mare. She always emphasized the importance of loving what you draw and throughout her long career illustrated many books for children, mostly about one of her favorite subjects, animals. In 1938 she received the first Caldecott Medal for Animals of the Bible by Helen Dean Fish. Dorothy Pulis Lathrop also illustrated the 1930 Newbery Award winner Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1929) by Rachel Field. During her prolific career she illustrated several of her own works, beginning with The Fairy Circus in 1931. She continued to write and illustrate children's books until the 1960s. Dorothy Pulis Lathrop died on December 30, 1980 in Falls Village, CT.
Biographical Sources:
Something About the Author vol. 14, pp. 116-120.
Something About the Author vol. 24, p. 140.