![]() ![]() ![]() In 1971 a friend convinced him to take some of his sketches to Houghton Mifflin, and a few short weeks later an editor there asked him to illustrate Plink, Plink, Plink by Byrd Baylor (1971). Undaunted, Marshall decided to study French and History at Trinity College and then Southern Connecticut State College, where he earned a Master’s degree, before returning to Boston to teach at Cathedral High School in the South End.ĭuring this stint as a teacher, Marshall began to draw seriously again. ![]() Unfortunately, he had only been attending the school for a year when a serious injury to his hand put an end to his musical career before it had even begun. The son of an insurance salesman, George Marshall, and Cecille Harrison Marshall, he doodled a great deal in his early years, but discouraged from the pastime early in his schooling, he focused his energy instead on his prodigious musical talent, studying the viola and violin and eventually earning a coveted scholarship to attend the New England Conservatory in Boston. ![]() “I would much rather have a friend like you than all the gardens in the world.”-Martha, George and Martha EncoreĬelebrated picture book illustrator and author James “Jim” Marshall was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1942. ![]()
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