![]() ![]() ![]() Things You Might Like to Do with His Work in General: His fairy tale renditions are full of sly humor. ![]() In those books, his characters change very little. He has several books in series: Miss Nelson, George & Martha, The Cut-Ups, The Stupids and The Rats, for instance. ![]() James Marshall's work is usually gently humorous. His first book, George and Martha, was inspired by a famous play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" in which the main characters were named George and Martha.įor many years he divided his time between an apartment in New York City and his home in Mansfield Hollow, Connecticut. James Marshall taught Spanish in a Catholic school near Boston upon graduation from college. He met Harry Allard, with whom he later wrote many picture books, when he was a student at Trinity College. Then his hand was injured during an airplane flight and his musical career was finished. James Marshall studied to play the viola and intended to have a musical career. James Marshall was born in San Antonio, Texas where his father worked for the railroad and had a dance band. This is an excerpt from Open Books: Literature in the Curriculum by Carol Otis Hurst. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Newsletter Spring 1999.īy Carol Hurst and Rebecca Otis. ![]()
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