Theodore Peter Lewin simply known as Ted Lewin, was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.
10 Facts About Ted Lewin
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Lewin and his wife Betsy Lewin drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon River, Botswana, Egypt, Lapland, the Sahara Desert, and India when collaborating on their many books.
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Ted Lewin was born in Buffalo, New York on May 6,1935.
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Ted Lewin has a sister and two brothers, Donn and Mark, both of them professional wrestlers.
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The Ted Lewin household had a number of exotic pets, such as an iguana, a rhesus monkey, a chimpanzee, and a lion.
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Ted Lewin grew up with the hobby of sketching his family pets.
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Ted Lewin copied works of many illustrators and painters that interested him.
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Ted Lewin graduated from LHS in 1952, and in 1956 earned a BFA degree from Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, where he met his wife, Betsy Reilly.
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Ted Lewin's wrestling career lasted for 26 years, and it inspired him to record his experience by writing I Was a Teenaged Professional Wrestler.
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Ted Lewin wrestled mainly in the World Wide Wrestling Federation from 1963 to 1968.