Shirley Hughes
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Shirley Hughes (born 16 July 1927) is an English author and illustrator.
She has written more than fifty books, some of which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and more than two hundred have illustrated more than two hundred.
As of 2007, she lives in London.Hughes won the Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration in 1977 and 2003.
Dogger, her 1977 winner, was named the public's favorite winning work of the award's first fifty years.
In 2015, she received the inaugural Booktrust lifetime achievement award.
Eleanor Farjeon Award recipient she was named.
She is a member of the Association of Illustrators.
Early life
Hughes was born in West Kirby, Essex, then in the county of Cheshire, then Merseyside, on July 16, 1927. Thomas James Hughes, the founder of T. J. Hughes and his wife Kathleen (née Dowling), grew up in West Kirby, on the Wirral. She recalled being inspired by artists such as Arthur Rackham and W. Heath Robinson, as well as the Walker Art Gallery and cinema. Edward Ardizzone and EH Shepard, who illustrated Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh, were two of her childhood favorites.
She and her mother went to the theater often, which gave her a passion for people and a desire to create.
Hughes attended West Kirby Grammar School but not as a scholar academically, and when she was 17, she moved to study drawing and costume design at the Liverpool School of Art. She discovered in Liverpool that social pressure was placed on her to locate a husband but then not achieve much in life. She longed to get out of these claustrophobic fantasies, so she travelled to Oxford in order to study the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
She moved to Notting Hill, London, after art school. She married John Sebastian Papendiek Vulliamy, an engineer and etcher, in 1952. The journalist Ed Vulliamy, the geneticist Tom Vulliamy, and Clara Vulliamy, a children's book illustrator, shared three children together.
Career
Hughes was encouraged to work in the picture book style and create lithographic illustrations in Oxford. However, after graduating, she decided to pursue her dreams of becoming a theatre designer and started working at the Birmingham Rep Theatre. She quickly decided that the "enclosed hothouse" of the theatre world wasn't for her, so she took her mentor's advice and began working as an illustrator. Noel Streatfeild started by illustrating other writers' books, including My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards and Noel Streatfeild's. Lucy & Tom's Day, her first published book, was turned into a series of stories by the author. She went on to write more stories, including Dogger (1977), the Alfie series (1977), a young boy named Alfie and occasionally his sister Annie-Rose, and the Olly and Me series (1993). In 2003, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool held an exhibition of her work, which later moved to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
Dogger, her most popular book, is about a toy dog that is missing by a small child but is then reunited with his owner after being discovered in a jumble auction. Ed Ed Edmond, her son, who lost his favorite teddy in Holland Park, was inspired in this book. A true Dogger existed before, and it was on view alongside the majority of her exhibitions in London and Oxford.
During her career, Hughes illustrated 200 children's books, which have sold more than ten million copies. Eight of her ten most popular libraries, as well as Alfie books (1981 to 2002), were found in WorldCat participating libraries. (Dogger was ranked second) and Out and About (1988). In 2015, Hughes wrote Hero on a Bicycle, her first novel. When she wrote this, she was at the age of 84.
Hughes died in London on February 25th, 2022. She was 94 and suffered from a short illness prior to her death. She was paid tribute to by the UK's biggest children's reading charity, the BookTrust, who said they were "devastated" by her death and that her "incredible stories and illustrations, from Dogger to Alfie and Tom, have touched so many generations and are still loved. "Thank you, Shirley," War Horse's author, Michael Morpurgo, praised her, saying she had "began the reading lives of so many millions."