15 Facts About David Macaulay

David Macaulay's works include Cathedral, The Way Things Work, and its updated revisions The New Way Things Work and The Way Things Work Now.

David Macaulay's illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design, and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books.

In 2006, Macaulay was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and received the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for his book Black and White, published in 1990.

David Macaulay was born in Burton upon Trent and grew up in Lancashire, England.

David Macaulay had an early fascination with how machines operated and made models and drew illustrations of them.

David Macaulay spent his fifth year at RISD in the European Honors Program, studying in Rome.

David Macaulay then took jobs as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and a teacher at RISD before he began to create books.

David Macaulay is the author of several books on architecture and design.

David Macaulay's first book, Cathedral, was a history, extensively illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, of the construction of a fictitious but representative Gothic cathedral.

David Macaulay authored a children's book, The Way Things Work.

David Macaulay considers concealing technology's inner mechanics as a growing problem for society, and aims to fight this trend with his work.

David Macaulay worked with medical professionals like Lois Smith, a professor at Harvard University and researcher at Children's Hospital Boston, and medical writer Richard Walker to ensure the accuracy of both his words and his illustrations.

David Macaulay has collaborated with the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials at Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Science to create illustrations for quantum materials.

David Macaulay was US nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984 and 2002.

David Macaulay was honored with delivering the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture in 2008 by the American Library Association.