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Five questions plus one with leonard s marcus
Leonard S. Marcus (born December 11, 1950) is one of the world's leading scholars of English language children's literature. Marcus is a critic, historian, and author.
Contents
- Five questions plus one with leonard s marcus
- Leonard s marcus on the value of picture books
- Education
- Major Lectures
- References
Leonard Marcus is a contributor to the Horn Book and New York Times Book Review. Marcus is a founding trustee of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. also, he is the curator of the New York Public Library's 2013 exhibition called The ABC OF IT: Why Children’s Books Matter'. Marcus "... is one of the best and brightest critics of children`s literature. He is a fine stylist in his own right," said Liz Rosenberg in reference to his biography of Margaret Wise Brown ``Awakened By The Moon`` . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Leonard s marcus on the value of picture books
Education
-Yale University, magna cum laude with honors in history, BA, 1972
-University of Iowa, Graduate Writers Workshop in Poetry, Master of Fine Arts, 1974
-Bank Street College of Education, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, 2007
Major Lectures
New York Public Library Pforzheimer Lecture;
Yale University Betsy Beinecke Shirley Lecture;
University of Wisconsin/Madison Charlotte Zolotow Lecture;
University of Illinois MillerComm Lecture;
Texas Woman’s University Bradshaw Lecture;
Princeton University;
New York University Medical Center Grand Rounds;
Art Institute of Chicago;
Library of Congress Center for the Book;
Los Angeles Public Library; American Library Association;
Maurice Sendak Fellowship;
Morgan Library & Museum (New York;
Chicago Humanities Festival;
National Book Festival;
Texas Book Festival;
University of Bologna; Bologna Children's Book Fair
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris)
Mona Bismarck Foundation (Paris); Bologna International Children’s Book Fair;
National Library of Japan (Tokyo);
Asian Festival of Children’s Content keynote (Singapore);
National Library of China (Beijing)
National Library of Taiwan (Taipei);
Exhibitions Curated
New York Public Library (“The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter,” and others);
Rosenbach Museum (“Wonderland Rules: ALICE at 150”);
New School for Social Research;
Katonah Museum of Art;
Boston Athenaeum;
Vassar College Library;
Brooklyn Public Library;
Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha);
Hartford Public Library/Hartford History Center;
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (“The Magician of the Modern: The Art of Leonard Weisgard” and several exhibitions); Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY);
National Museum of American Jewish History (Philadelphia, PA);
National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX); Real Art Ways (Hartford)..
Awards Judged
-Creator of the Carle Honors Awards (Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art);
Reading Magic Awards (Parenting magazine)
-2016 International Award in Illustration, Bologna Book Fair
-2016: Scholastic Asia Book Award (chief judge)
-2011: Sendak Fellowship
-2006–present: The Carle Honors Awards of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (committee chair); also, as a museum trustee, designed the plan for these awards.
-2009: Ragazzi Illustration Prize of the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair
-2001: Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards
-2001 Society of Illustrators/Original Art Show Juried Exhibition and Gold and Silver Medals
-1996: The National Book Award, Young People’s Literature; advised the National Book Foundation for five years thereafter on the selection of judges in this category.
-1993-2007: The Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and New Illustrator Awards
-1988-2007: Parenting Magazine Reading Magic Awards (later, Best Books of the Year): designed the plan for these awards; selected four judges annually; consolidated judges’ recommendations, and wrote the awards feature article for each Dec/Jan double issue of the magazine.
-1987, 1993, 2002: New York Times Book Review Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year Awards
Teaching Experience
-School of Visual Arts (summer 2013–present). MFA in Visual Narrative Program seminar on the history of the picture book
-NYU Child Study Center/NYU Medical Center, “The Literature of Children and Adolescents” (2009–present)
-University of Illinois, “The Picture Book: History, Art, and Visual Literacy” (summer 2009 and summer 2011)
-Texas Woman’s University, “Children’s Books and Editorial Vision” (graduate seminar, School of Information and Library Science, 2000)
-California College of Arts and Crafts, “Writing for Children” (summer 1987)
-New School for Social Research, “Children’s Books As Literature” (Vera List Center, 1986-1992)
-School of Visual Arts, “Children’s Literature for Illustrators” (1982-1992)
Other Current Affiliations Eric Carle Museum, founding trustee (chair of exhibitions, collections, and Carle Honors Awards committees);
Authors Guild, member; The Century Association, member.
The Leonard Marcus Papers are at the Reinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.