Virginia Lee Burton Writer

Virginia Lee Burton (August 30, 1909 – October 15, 1968), also known by her married name, Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author. She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including The Little House (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal She also illustrated six books by other authors.Burton founded the textile collective, Folly Cove Designers, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, which had numerous museum exhibitions. Some of its members' works are held today in the collections of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)Burton Virginia; Demetrios Virginia
Birth dateAugust 30, 1909
Birth nameVirginia Burton
Birth place
Newton Centre Massachusetts
Nationality
Americans
Date of deathOctober 15, 1968

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Writer

genre
Children's literature
notable work
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
The Little House

Virginia Lee Burton on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://juh.sagepub.com/content/37/4/562.abstract
  2. http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv98850
  3. http://www.katyandthebigsnow.info/Katy_Themes/Page_One.html