Virginia Lee Burton
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| Born | Virginia Burton August 30, 1909 Newton Centre, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | October 15, 1968 (aged 59) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Illustrator, writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Children's picture books |
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| Notable awards |
Caldecott Medal 1943 |
Virginia Lee Burton (August 30, 1909 – October 15, 1968), also known by her married name, Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author. She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including The Little House (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal. She also illustrated six books by other authors.
Burton founded the textile collective, Folly Cove Designers, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, which had numerous museum exhibitions. Some of its members' works are held today in the collections of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Cape Ann Museum, and New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Virginia Burton was born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts and called "Jinnee" as a child. Her mother was Lena Yates, a lyric poet and artist from England, who had her first poem published at age 20 and published children's books under the name Lena Dalkeith. She later took the name Jeanne D’Orge. She was 30 years younger and the second wife of her husband, Alfred E. Burton, an engineer and the first Dean for Student Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1902-1921), reporting to the president. They married in 1906, after meeting on a walking trip in France. Alfred Burton had been widowed.
Virginia had an older sister, Christine, and younger brother, Alexander Ross Burton in addition to their father's first two sons, Harold Hitz and Felix Arnold Burton. She recounted their boisterous holiday celebrations, and singing, dancing and theatrical productions as children. Harold became an attorney, politician and Supreme Court Justice; and Arnold an architect.
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