Marc brown biography authors arthur series

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Marc Brown (author)

American author and illustrator of children's books

For other people with the same name, see Marc Brown.

"Arthur (book series)" redirects here. For other uses, see Arthur (disambiguation).

Marc Brown
Brown at a Naperville, Illinois bookstore in April 2011
Born	Marc Tolon Brown (1946-11-25) November 25, 1946 (age 78) Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Author illustrator executive producer
Genre	Children's books, television shows
Years active	1969–present
Spouse	Stephanie Marini (m. 1968; div. 1977) Laurene Krasny (m. 1983)
Children	3

Marc Tolon Brown (born November 25, 1946) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Brown writes as well as illustrates the Arthur book series and is best known for creating that series and its numerous spin-offs.

Early life and education

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While growing up in Erie, Pennsylvania, with his three sisters, Brown was told many stories by his grandmother Thora. This inspired Brown to write stories of his own in the later years of his life. An example of this was the "borrowing" of his 7th grade algebra teacher's name Mr. Rathbun for the character

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Marc Brownness Facts

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marc brown biography authors arthur series

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Marc Tolon Brown was born on November 25, 1946, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Brown is the son of LeRoy Edward and Renita Toulon Brown. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1968. In 1968 he married Stephanie Marini (the marriage ended in divorce in 1977) and had two sons, Tolon Adam and Tucker Eliot Brown. Brown then married fellow writer, Laurie Krasny, in 1983 and had one daughter with her, Eliza Morgan. Brown worked numerous jobs before writing and illustrating numerous books. He began working as a truck-driver, short-order cook, soda jerk, assistant college professor at Garland Junior College, television art director, actor, and costume set designer for WICU-TV (an NBC network affiliate). Brown began illustrating books for authors in 1969 while holding these other jobs.

The first book Brown illustrated was Isaac Asimov's What Makes the Sun Shine?, which won a Children's Books of the Year citation from the Child Study Association of America. A Boston-based publisher, Houghton and Mifflin, offered him freelance work in illustration. After about five years of illustration, Brown decided to try and create his own stories. The popular Arthur books began when Brown's son wanted to hear a bedtime story and he made one up about an aardvark named Arthur.

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