biography
pronunciation:
[stiyg]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907– )
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| biography:
| Artist, cartoonist, and writer, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied in New York at City College (1923–5) and the National Academy of Design (1925–9). In 1930 he began to make wood sculptures and to work as a free-lance artist, notably for the New Yorker. Late in his life he began writing as well as illustrating children's books, many of them classics of the genre, such as Roland, The Minstrel Pig (1968), Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), and The Amazing Bone (1976). Dreamworks based the film Shrek (2001) on his book of the same name. |
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