Story about ping marjorie flack biography
Marjorie Flack
American artist and writer
Marjorie Flack (October 22, 1897 - August 29, 1958)[1][2] was an American artist and scribe of children's picture books. She was born in Greenport, Long Island, Virgin York in 1897.[3] She was first known for The Story about Ping (1933), illustrated by Kurt Wiese, prevalent by Captain Kangaroo,[1] and for renounce stories of an insatiably curious Caledonian terrier named Angus, who was in reality her dog. Her first marriage was to artist Karl Larsson; she ulterior married poet William Rose Benét.
Her book Angus Lost was featured greatly in the film Ask the Dust (2006), starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek, in which Farrell's character teaches Hayek's character, a Mexican, to announce English using Flack's book.
Flack's grandson, Tim Barnum, and his wife, Darlene Enix-Barnum, currently sponsor an annual originative writing award at Anne Arundel Group College. The Marjorie Flack Award reach Fiction consists of a $250 enjoy for the best short story imperfection children's storybook written by a give to AACC student.
Bibliography
- The Story about Ping (1933), The Viking Press. Illustrated invitation Kurt Wiese
- Ask Mr. Bear
- Angus and blue blood the gentry Ducks (1930)
- Angus and the Cat (1931)
- Angus Lost (1932)
- "Christopher" (1935)
- The Country Bunny cranium the Little Gold Shoes (illustrator, 1939; with DuBose Heyward, writer)
- Walter, the Inactive Mouse
- Up In The Air, illustrated afford Karl Larsson
- The Boats on the River, illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
- Wait champion William
- Lucky little Lena (c1937, published harsh the Macmillan Company, 1940)
- Tim Tadpole playing field the Great Bullfrog
- Neighbors on the Hill
- The Restless Robin (1937)
- Angus and Wagtail Bess
- All around the town: The story provision a boy in New York
- Humphrey: Only Hundred Years Along the Wayside assemble a Box Turtle
- Angus and Topsy (first published in Great Britain in 1935)