{"id":1369,"date":"2015-06-03T19:12:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2015-06-03T19:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:12:44","slug":"emily-arnold-mccully-gets-a-new-finding-aid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/06\/03\/emily-arnold-mccully-gets-a-new-finding-aid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Arnold McCully gets a new finding aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A new finding aid<\/a> is now available for the Emily Arnold McCully Papers.\u00a0 The collection consists of sketches, dummies, research materials and artwork for eight of her books: The Taxing Case of the Cows, \u00a0the Divide, \u00a0Old Home Day, \u00a0Ballot Box Battle, \u00a0Ballerina Swan, \u00a0My Heart Glow, \u00a0Secret Seder<\/em>, and \u00a0The Helpful Puppy<\/em>.\u00a0 Emily Arnold McCully, an American writer and illustrator, won the Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration in 1993, for Mirette on the High Wire<\/em> which she also wrote.<\/p>\n

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Ballot Box Battle (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).\u00a0 All rights reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n

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She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1939, and grew up in Garden City, New York. She attended Pembroke College, now a part of Brown University, and earned an M.A. in Art History from Columbia University. At Brown she acted in the inaugural evening of Production Workshop and other plays, co-wrote the annual musical, Brownbrokers<\/em>, and earned a Phi Beta Kappa key.<\/p>\n

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In 1976, she published a short story in The Massachusetts Review<\/em>. It was selected for the O’Henry Collection: Best Short Stories of the Year<\/em>. Two novels followed: \u00a0A Craving<\/em> in 1982, and \u00a0Life Drawing<\/em> in 1986. In 2012, Ms. McCully published \u00a0Ballerina Swan<\/em> with Holiday House Books for Young People, written by legendary prima ballerina Allegra Kent. It has received rave reviews from The New York Times,<\/em> Kirkus Reviews,<\/em> and School Library Journal <\/em>and was praised in the “Talk of the Town” column in The New Yorker<\/em>.\u00a0
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\"Secret<\/a>

Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux (New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010).\u00a0 All rights reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n

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As an actor, she performed in Equity productions of Elizabeth Diggs\u2019 Saint Florence<\/em> at Capital Rep in Albany and The Vineyard Theater in New York City.\u00a0 In addition to the Caldecott Award, Ms. McCully has received a Christopher Award for Picnic,<\/em> the Jane Addams Award, the Giverney Award and an honorary doctorate from Brown University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new finding aid is now available for the Emily Arnold McCully Papers.\u00a0 The collection consists of sketches, dummies, research materials and artwork for eight of her books: The Taxing Case of the Cows, \u00a0the Divide, \u00a0Old Home Day, \u00a0Ballot … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,353,369,6,1,10],"tags":[262,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}