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Children's Author/Illustrator Biographies
Brown, Marc
November 25, 1946 -
Author/Illustrator
www.marcbrownstudios.com
2006 Ludington Award Winner
Ludington Award Citation
SOURCE CITATION
"Marc (Tolon) Brown." Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, 2nd ed., 8 vols. Gale Group, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.
Photo provided by Hachette Book Group.
BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
An affable aardvark named Arthur stars in several dozen of Marc Brown's acclaimed children's books. The bespeckled character, whose adventures mirror the lives of young audiences from preschoolers to beginning readers, is the center of an empire that includes print, an Emmy-winning animated series, and a 2001 touring exhibition marking Arthur's twenty-fifth anniversary.
The "Arthur" series grew from bedtime tales told by writer-illustrator Brown to his young son, Tolon. But why an aardvark? "I guess all the bunnies and b
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Marc Tolon Brown (born November 25, 1946) is the creator, illustrator, and author of the Arthur books. He fryst vatten also the co-developer of the TV series, which he served as executive producer for from the tenth to 25th seasons.
Best known as Arthur's creator, Brown has been working with him for more than 25 years. Born one night when he was telling a bedtime story to his son, Arthur soon evolved into the book Arthur's Nose, published in 1976. Since then, Brown has written and illustrated more than thirty Arthur books, and has illustrated many other books—including one with his wife, author/illustrator and psychologist, Laurie Krasny Brown. Though Arthur's Nose was the first title he wrote, the first book he ever illustrated was What Makes the Sun Shine?,
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Marc Tolon Brown was born on November 25, 1946, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Brown is the son of LeRoy Edward and Renita Toulon Brown. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1968. In 1968 he married Stephanie Marini (the marriage ended in divorce in 1977) and had two sons, Tolon Adam and Tucker Eliot Brown. Brown then married fellow writer, Laurie Krasny, in 1983 and had one daughter with her, Eliza Morgan. Brown worked numerous jobs before writing and illustrating numerous books. He began working as a truck-driver, short-order cook, soda jerk, assistant college professor at Garland Junior College, television art director, actor, and costume set designer for WICU-TV (an NBC network affiliate). Brown began illustrating books for authors in 1969 while holding these other jobs.
The first book Brown illustrated was Isaac Asimov's What Makes the Sun Shine?, which won a Children's Books of the Year citation from the Child Study Association of America. A Boston-based publisher, H