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Leonard S.Marcus Children's Book Historian, Author, Critic |
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Leonard Marcus is one of the children's book world's most respected and versatile writers, historians, and critics. His highly acclaimed books about children's literature and the authors and artists who create them include: Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon; Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom; A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal; Side by Side; and Storied City: A Children¹s-Book Walking Tour Guide to New York City. A Caldecott Celebration, Author Talk, and Side by Side are specially designed to appeal to young readers as well as interested adults. Leonard's other children's books include: Lifelines: A Poetry Anthology Patterned on the Stages of Life; Mother Goose's Little Misfortunes; and Petrouchka: A Ballet Cut-Out Book. Leonard is one of the most trusted critics in the field. His incisive book reviews have been featured in Parenting magazine in every issue since the monthly magazine's founding in 1987. In addition, Leonard has been a Parenting contributing editor since 1988 and has directed the magazine's annual Best Books of the Year Awards since their inception in that year. He has also been a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, The Horn Book, Publishers Weekly, and numerous other publications. He was the founding book review editor of The Lion and the Unicorn. Leonard is a three-time judge of the New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year prize; is a standing member of The Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award committee; and was a judge of the 1996 National Book Awards. He has been a featured guest on ABC's Good Morning America, BBC Radio 4, C-Span 2 Book TV, WOR's Rambling with Gambling, the Fox Network's Good Morning New York Sunday, National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation, The Loose Leaf Book Company, Studio 360, Canadian Broadcasting Company's As It Happens, WHYY's Radio Times (Philadelphia), and WREC's The Book Gallery (Memphis). He is literary director of the Night Kitchen Radio Theater, broadcast monthly on XM Satellite Radio in association with the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Leonard has organized exhibitions on children's books and their illustration at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, where is also a founding trustee; New York Public Library, New School for Social Research, Vassar College Library, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Every Picture Tells a Story Gallery (Los Angeles). He has been a consultant to the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Book Foundation, the Children's Museum of Manhattan, the All for Kids Foundation, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club, the Touchstone Center for Children, the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, and Book Globe Company Ltd (Japan); a member of the National Board of the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (www.nccil.org), a member of the Board of Directors of the Weston Woods Institute(www.westonwoodsinstitute.org), and a member of the Mazza National Advisory Board. Leonard speaks to parents and professional groups throughout the U. S. and around the world. Recent appearances have included talks and lectures at the American Library Association Convention (Chicago), Yale University, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' National Convention (Los Angeles); the Bologna International Children's Book Fair (Bologna, IT), Texas Woman's University, the New York Public Library, the Los Angeles Public Library, the International Library of Children's Literature (Tokyo); and the French National Library (Paris). He enjoys speaking to school children as well, and offers a variety of presentations for preschoolers through preteens. Leonard was born and raised in Mount Vernon, New York. He holds degrees in history from Yale and poetry from the University of Iowa Graduate Writers' Workshop. He and his wife, the picture-book artist Amy Schwartz, live with their son Jacob in Brooklyn, New York. |
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