{"id":5636,"date":"2015-06-03T19:25:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:04:15","slug":"emily-arnold-mccully-gets-a-new-finding-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/06\/03\/emily-arnold-mccully-gets-a-new-finding-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Arnold McCully gets a new finding aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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\u00a0eight of her books: The Taxing Case of the Cows,\u00a0 the 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

\"Secret<\/a>

Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux (New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010)<\/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, Kirkus Reviews<\/em>, and School Library Journal<\/em> and was praised in the “Talk of the Town” column in The New Yorker.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ballot<\/a>

Ballot Box Battle (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996)<\/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":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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\u00a0eight of her books: The Taxing Case of the Cows,\u00a0 the Divide, \u00a0Old Home Day, \u00a0Ballot … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,10],"tags":[262,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1sU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}