Cyndy Szekeres was an American children's book author and illustrator who has produced more than 130 books in the tradition of Beatrix Potter and Garth Williams.
11 Facts About Cyndy Szekeres
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Cyndy Szekeres's parents were Stephen Paul, a toolmaker, and Anna Szekeres.
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Cyndy Szekeres's father was a first-generation immigrant from Hungary, while her mother was a second-generation Lithuanian American.
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Cyndy Szekeres grew up in the countryside of Fairfield County, where she developed a love of nature and began drawing in pencil at a very young age.
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Cyndy Szekeres drew inspiration from the work of N C Wyeth and Arthur Rackham.
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Cyndy Szekeres married Pratt classmate Gennaro "Jerry" Prozzo, a painter and etcher to whom dePaola had introduced her, on September 20,1958.
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Cyndy Szekeres subsequently taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and maintained a studio in the home he shared with Szekeres.
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Cyndy Szekeres illustrated Miriam E Mason's book Hoppity.
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Cyndy Szekeres's books had sold more than 14 million copies by 1996.
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Cyndy Szekeres's papers are held in the Northeast Children's Literature Collection of the University of Connecticut Library's Archives and Special Collections.
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Cyndy Szekeres died in Maryville, Tennessee on November 22,2024, at the age of 91.