Emily Arnold McCully
Author of Mirette on the High Wire
About the Author
Emily Arnold McCully was born in Galesburg, Illinois on July 1, 1939. She graduated from Pembroke College, now a part of Brown University, in 1961 and received an M.A. in art history from Columbia University. After graduation, she held a variety of jobs in the art field that included being a show more commercial artist, a designer of paperback covers, and illustrating advertisements. When one of her illustrations was seen on an advertisement in the subway, she was asked to illustrate Greg Panetta's Sea Beach Express. She accepted that offer and went on to illustrate over 100 children's books. In 1969, she illustrated Meindert de Jong's Journey from the Peppermint Express, which was the first children's book to receive the National Book Award. Her first solo venture, Picnic, won the Christopher Award in 1985. Mirette on the High Wire won the Caldecott Medal in 1993. Her other children's books include Amazing Felix, Crossing the New Bridge, Grandmas at the Lake, My Real Family, and The Pirate Queen. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Emily Arnold McCully is the same person as Emily Arnold. Under the name Emily Arnold, she wrote two novels - A Craving and Life Drawing. Afterward publishing these two novels she began writing and illustrating books for children.
Series
Works by Emily Arnold McCully
Clara: The (Mostly) True Story of the Rhinoceros Who Dazzled Kings, Inspired Artists, and Won the Hearts of Everyone .… (2016) 61 copies
My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the Birth of American Sign Language (2008) 44 copies
Mirette on the High Wire [1994 film] — Narrator — 4 copies
Outlaw Thanksgiving, An 1 copy
Beautiful Warrior 1 copy
Associated Works
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 11, July 1975 — Illustrator — 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 11, July 1977 — Illustrator — 1 copy
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 11, July 1978 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Other names
- Arnold, Emily
- Birthdate
- 1939-07-01
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Galesburg, Illinois, USA
- Places of residence
- Garden City, New York, USA (childhood)
New York, USA - Education
- Brown University
Columbia University (MA|Art History)
Pembroke College, Providence - Occupations
- children's book illustrator
children's book author
novelist
actress - Short biography
- Emily Arnold was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and moved with her family to Long Island when she was five. She started to draw at about age three or four, around the same time she learned to read. At Brown University, she helped write a musical comedy and acted in plays. After graduation, she worked at an advertising agency in New York City and earned a master's degree in art history from Columbia University. In 1976, she published a short story in The Massachusetts Review, whch was followed by two novels, A Craving (1982) and Life Drawing (1986). She then began illustrating and later writing children's books. She won the 1993 Caldecott Medal for Mirette on the High Wire. In 2012, she illustrated Ballerina Swan, written by legendary New York City Ballet ballerina Allegra Kent. She has performed as an actress at Capital Rep in Albany and at The Vineyard Theater in New York City.
- Disambiguation notice
- Emily Arnold McCully is the same person as Emily Arnold. Under the name Emily Arnold, she wrote two novels - A Craving and Life Drawing. Afterward publishing these two novels she began writing and illustrating books for children.
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Clara: The (Mostly) True Story of the Rhinoceros Who Dazzled Kings, Inspired Artists, and Won the Hearts of Everyone . . . While She Ate Her Way Up and Down a Continent! (Five to Nine, Fiction, Animals – 2017)
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But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini--master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again.
Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.… (more)