Althea (Thea) Kliros
, 1935 - 2013
Born in New York, Kliros lived in many places throughout Europe. She studied art at Bennington College and Yale University School of Art and Design. Her career began with painting and while her initial focus was on fashion illustrations, it shifted to children’s books and she became an award-winning illustrator such as Best of the Year from the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia for the Greenwillow Harper Collins publication What Can you Do in The Rain? Among her works are Anne of Green Gables from Anytime Books, and The Velveteen Rabbit, The Nutcracker, and Billy Goat Gruff from Harper Festival/Harper Collins.
Sources:
Official website (accessed: June 28, 2018).
Profile at the legacy.com (accessed: June 28, 2018).
Bio prepared by Allison Rosenblum, Bar-Ilan University, allie.rose89@gmail.com
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