Margrette Elizabeth Rey , née Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein ( German; Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein [3] ; May 10, 1906, Hamburg - December 21, 1996, Cambridge , Massachusetts) is an American children's writer who has co-authored many books. his husband, H.A. Ray , the most famous of which is a series about the adventures of a monkey named Curious George ( en: Curious George ).
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Youth
Margarete Waldstein was born in Hamburg in 1906. Her father was a member of the Reichstag . She studied art at the Bauhaus in Dessau , the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf and the University of Munich , after which she worked in the field of advertising.
In 1935, fleeing Nazism, she left Germany for Rio de Janeiro , where she met her future husband Hans Augusto Rey . In the same year they got married and in 1936 they moved to Paris , where they began their many years of literary cooperation. [four]
Literary Collaboration with Husband
Late Period
After her husband died in 1977, Margrethe continued to write books. In 1979, she became a professor of essay writing (Creative Writing) at Brandeis University in Waltham , Massachusetts. Since 1980, she has also collaborated with Alan Schalleck in creating a series of short films about the adventures of Curious George and in writing more than two dozen new books.
In 1989, Margrethe Rey founded the Curious George Foundation to help creative children and protect animals from abuse. In 1996, she made major donations to the Boston Public Library and Beth Israel Medical Center. She also supported the Longji School of Music ( en: Longy School of Music ) for a long time.
Testament
In 1966, Reina was approached by Lina J. de Grammond, a professor of library science at the University of South Mississippi at Gettysburg , Mississippi, with a request to help replenish their new collection of children's literature. Then the spouses of Rhea gave the library a couple of their sketches, but in 1996, after Margret's death, it turned out that their entire library was bequeathed to the De Grammond Literary Collection.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 105847216 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Rothstein, Edward. "Monkey Business in a World of Evil," The New York Times , Friday, March 26, 2010.
- ↑ Meister, Carol. HA Rey . - 2001. - P. 12. - ISBN 1-57765-481-1 .
Links
- Margret Rey on the Internet Movie Database
- The HA and Margret Rey Collection , The University of Southern Mississippi.
- Dinitia Smith, “How Curious George Escaped the Nazis,” New York Times , September 13, 2005.
- Margret and HARey Interactive Timeline: Life in Paris and a Narrow Escape
- Works by or about Rey, Margret in libraries ( WorldCat catalog)