Virginia Lee Burton

Virginia Lee Burton was born in 1909 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Her father was the first dean of student affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her mother was a poet and artist from England. When she was about eight her family moved to California, settling in the artistic town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. She won a scholarship to the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, using her long commute to practise quick sketches of fellow passengers. In 1928 she moved to Boston, where she worked as a sketcher for the Boston Evening Transcript. She married the sculptor George Demetrios, who had taught her drawing, and they settled at Folly Cove in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and had two sons. Her first published book, Choo Choo (1935), was about a runaway train engine. It was followed by Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939), Katy and the Big Snow and The Little House (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal. She also founded the Folly Cove Designers, a group of textile artists. She died in 1968.

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