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일러스트레이터 소개
유명한 화가이자 프린트메이커이면서 뛰어난 북메이커이기도 합니다. 어린이를 위해 처음 만든 책『이상한 자연사 박물관(Time Flies)』으로 1995년에 칼데콧 아너 상을 수상하였습니다. 미국 애리조나 주 주립대와 일리노이 주 주립대에서 미술을 전공하였으며 현재는 미국 전역에 있는 화랑과 박물관에 작품이 전시되고 있을 정도로 명성을 떨치고 있습니다. 어린이가 꿈꾸는 환상의 세계를 독특한 시간의 흐름으로 형상화시키는 데 마법에 가까운 실력과 재능을 가지고 있으며 일리노이 주 시카고 외곽에 살고 있습니다.
Eric Rohmann won the Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit, and a Caldecott Honor for Time Flies. He is also the author and illustrator of Clara and Asha, A Kitten Tale, and The Cinder-Eyed Cats, among other books for children. He has illustrated many other books, including Last Song, based on a poem by James Guthrie, and has created book jackets for a number of novels, including His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman. Rohmann was born in Riverside, Illinois in 1957. He grew up in Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago. As a boy, he played Little League baseball, read comic books, and collected rocks and minerals, insects, leaves, and animal skulls. Rohmann has his BS in Art and an MS in Studio Art from Illinois State University, and an MFA in Printmaking/Fine Bookmaking from Arizona State University. He also studied Anthropology and Biology. He taught printmaking, painting, and fine bookmaking at Belvoir Terrace in Massachusetts and introductory drawing, fine bookmaking, and printmaking at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. He lives in a suburb of Chicago.