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Carson Ellis
, b. 1975
Carson Ellis is an American author and illustrator, with a quirky, distinctive style influenced by tradition of folk art. She has illustrated books for a number of children’s writers, including Trenton Lee’s The Mysterious Benedict Society (2007) and Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead (2009). Her own books, Home (2015) and Du Is Tak (2016) are both bestsellers, with the latter celebrated as a Caldecott Honor Book.
Ellis is married to Colin Meloy, the singer-songwriter from The Decemberists. Ellis is the band’s illustrator-in-residence, and received Grammy nominations for album design in 2016 and 2018. The couple have collaborated on the children’s fantasy series The Wildwood Chronicles. They live with their two sons on a farm in Oregon.
Sources:
Official website (accessed: September 16, 2020).
Erin Feher, The Bookshelf: Inside the Dreamy Portland Studio of Carson Ellis, mothermag.com, published June 18, 2019 (accessed: September 16, 2020).
Bio prepared by Miriam Riverlea, University of New England, mriverlea@gmail.com
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