Lorin Morgan-Richards
| Lorin Morgan-Richards | |
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| Born |
16 February 1975 Beebetown, Ohio |
| Occupation | Author, Cartoonist |
| Known for | Author Cartoonist Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival Celtic Family Magazine Bringing the Circle Together |
| Spouse(s) | Valerie Stoneking |
| Website | http://www.lorinrichards.com |
Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 16 February 1975) is an author and illustrator, publisher of Celtic Family Magazine, and founder of the Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival.
He is known for founding the Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival, one of the largest Welsh festivals of its kind in the United States, and founding the most widely distributed print publication based in the United States about Celtic cultures and interests. In 2014 he won the Eisteddfod Honorary Recognition for Bardic Achievements.
Morgan-Richards was born in Beebetown, Ohio and is of Welsh and Swiss (Amish) descent.
Richards was raised in an old converted school house in Beebetown, Ohio. His mother (a student of fine art) taught him the basics of drawing and music composition on the family pump organ. Richards also credited his imagination on the plentiful books his family owned, creative isolation, and the sheer number of animals they took care of, many of which he incorporated into his early drawings and writings.
Richards interest in Native American and American Western history began in childhood. “I remember my first book as a child was The Indians Knew by Tillie S. Pine, an early reader from 1965 explaining the cultural ways and historical resourcefulness of Native Americans and how they are applied in the sciences today.”
When Richards entered second grade he was diagnosed with a form of dyslexia that required tutoring through the ninth grade. By his early teens, he was reading and became inspired by Edward Lear, L. Frank Baum, Roald Dahl, and Lewis Carroll; helping him overcome his reading disability.
Richards great ancestor was the 19th century Welsh-American poet Robert Dennison Morgan. Robert's father (Richards direct ancestor) John Morgan left the Tredegar area of Wales and emigrated to southern Ohio in the early part of the 1800s.
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