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Cyndy Szekeres
American children's book author and illustrator (–)
Cyndy Szekeres (October 31, – November 22, ) was an American children's book author and illustrator who has produced more than books in the tradition of Beatrix Potter and Garth Williams.
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Best known for her anthropomorphic animal illustrations, she won the AIGA Award for Moon Mouse.[1][2][3]
Biography
Szekeres was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on October 31, Her parents were Stephen Paul, a toolmaker, and Anna (Ceplousky) Szekeres.
Her father was a first-generation immigrant from Hungary, while her mother was a second-generation Lithuanian American.[4] Szekeres grew up in the countryside of Fairfield County, where she developed a love of nature and began drawing in pencil at a very young age.
Growing up in the later years of the Great Depression, she got her start drawing on brown paper bags.[4] She drew inspiration from the work of N. C. Wyeth and Arthu