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American illustrator and writer (1911–1986)

Evaline Ness (April 24, 1911 – August 12, 1986)^[1] was an American commercial artist, illustrator, and author of children's books. She illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and wrote several of her own.^[2] She used a great variety of artistic media and methods.^[1][3][4]

As an illustrator of picture books she was one of three Caldecott Medal runners-up each year from 1964 to 1966 and she won the 1967 Medal for Sam, Bangs and Moonshine, which she also wrote.^[5] In 1972 she was the U.S.

nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's illustrators.^[6]

Life

Ness was born Evaline Michelow in Union City, Ohio and grew up in Pontiac, Michigan.^[7] As a child she illustrated her older sister's stories with collages cut from magazine pictures.^[3] She studied at Ball State Teachers Coll Sam, Bangs & Moonshine - Wikipedia NIJEG