1. Maira Kalman is an American artist, illustrator, writer, and designer known for her painting and writing about the human condition.
19 Facts About Maira Kalman
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Maira Kalman is the author and illustrator of over 30 books for adults and children and her work is exhibited in museums around the world.
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Maira Kalman has been a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker.
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When Kalman was four years old, her family moved to Riverdale, Bronx in New York City.
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Maira Kalman was known for her chic style, and she wore only the color white.
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Maira Kalman attended New York University, where she studied English literature.
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At the age of 18, Maira Kalman met designer Tibor Maira Kalman at New York University, he was a native of Budapest who had moved to New York City as a child.
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Maira Kalman's priorities began to shift with the birth of her children in the 1980s.
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Maira Kalman did not consider herself just a writer, but addressed that she was a storyteller, a journalist, a designer and a humorist.
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Maira Kalman created the sets for the Mark Morris Dance Group production of Four Saints in Three Acts, an opera by Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein.
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In 2005, Maira Kalman is known for her illustrations for the 2005 edition of The Elements of Style, the popular guide to writing style, by William Strunk.
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Maira Kalman designed production sets for an opera about Gertrude Stein.
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Maira Kalman wrote the monthly illustrated blog from April 2006 to April 2007, The Principles of Uncertainty, for the New York Times.
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Maira Kalman's work is featured on Rosenbach Museum and Library's 21st Century Abe project.
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Maira Kalman crafted the illustrations for author Daniel Handler's Lemony Snicket series including the books, 13 Words and Why We Broke Up.
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In 2014, My Favorite Things, by Maira Kalman, was published by Harper Design, a division of HarperCollins.
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From November 2019 to April 2020, Maira Kalman's publications were exhibited at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Maira Kalman's children attended the City and Country School in Greenwich Village.
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Maira Kalman's character is the duck, which is represented by the sound of an oboe.