Peter Newell
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Peter Newell | |
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| Peter Newell (before 1902) Peter Newell (before 1902) | |
| Born | Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (1862年03月05日)5 March 1862 Niagara Falls, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 15 January 1924(1924年01月15日) (aged 61) |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Nationality | American |
Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924) was an American artist and writer. He created picture books and illustrated new editions of many children's books.
A native of McDonough County, Illinois, Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in Harper's Weekly , Harper's Bazaar , Scribner's Magazine , The Saturday Evening Post , Judge , and other publications. He later wrote and illustrated several popular children's books, such as Topsys and Turvys (1893), a collection of poems and images which could be viewed upside-down or right-side-up; The Hole Book (1908), which had a literal hole at the center of each page to indicate the path of a bullet; and The Slant Book[1] (1910), which took the shape of a rhomboid and told the story of a baby carriage careening down a hill.[2]
Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll. He also created a comic strip serial, The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead, which debuted in the New York Herald in 1905. He died in Little Neck, New York in 1924.[2]
Newell's great-granddaughter, Laura Lydecker, was also an artist and children's book illustrator. Lydecker illustrated editions of Wind in the Willows and The Country Mouse and the City Mouse.
References
[edit ]- ^ "From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division".
- ^ a b Dennis Wepman "Newell, Peter" American National Biography Online. February 2000. Retrieved on July 6, 2009.
External links
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- Works by Peter Newell at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Peter Newell at the Internet Archive
- Works by Peter Newell at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Peter Newell's Books at nonsenselit.org
- The Rocket Book From the Collections at the Library of Congress
- Peter Newell at Library of Congress, with 48 library catalog records
- Peter Newell Family Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- Peter Newell Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
