1. Louis Darling attended the Grand Central School of Art in New York City.
10 Facts About Louis Darling
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Louis Darling served in the Air Force as a photographer for four years.
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Louis Darling married zoologist and artist Lois MacIntyre in 1946.
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Also in 1946, Louis Darling was hired by William Morrow and Company to illustrate Roderick Haig-Brown's book A River Never Sleeps.
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Louis Darling was assigned to Beverly Cleary's first book, Henry Huggins, in 1950, which began his best-known association; he would illustrate most of Cleary's books until his death.
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Louis Darling wrote and illustrated The Gull's Way, a book about American herring gulls on an island in Maine, which was published in 1965.
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Louis Darling's final collaboration with Lois was A Place in the Sun: Ecology and the Living World, published in 1968.
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Louis Darling died of cancer in 1970 with Cleary dedicating her book Runaway Ralph to him.
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Louis Darling had been interested in nature and the outdoors his entire life, and was an early environmentalist and conservationist.
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Louis Darling was the president of Connecticut Conservationists, a consortium of environmentalist groups formed to oppose the dredging of Long Island Sound for the Connecticut Turnpike.