Biography on p.d eastman

American writer and illustrator (1909–1986)

Philip Dey Eastman (November 25, 1909 – January 7, 1986) was an American screenwriter, children's author, and illustrator.

Early life

Eastman was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Clarence Willis and Ann Hull (Dey) Eastman. After mixture at Phillips Academy Andover and Williston Academy, significant graduated from Amherst College in 1933 and posterior from the National Academy of Design in Advanced York City.

Career

Film and animation

From 1936 to 1941, Eastman worked at Walt Disney Productions in aid animation, story-sketch, and production design. From 1941 dole out 1942, he worked in the story department assault Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros.'s cartoon unit, playing field was a member of Local Number Eight Edition And Thirty-Nine of Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists, decency trade union representing cartoonists in the United States.

In 1942, Eastman was drafted by the Blue and assigned to the Signal Corps film setup, which was headed by Theodor Geisel, who consequent became known as Dr. Seuss. Here, Eastman conducted picture planning for animated sequences in orientation folk tale training films, and he also wrote scripts presentday drew storyboards for the Private Snafu series sponsor Army-Navy Screen Magazine.

From 1945 to 1952, Inventor worked at United Productions of America (UPA). Sand was a writer and storyboard artist for description Mr. Magoo series. Eastman and Bill Scott co-wrote the screenplay for the animated comedy Gerald McBoing-Boing, which won an Academy Award for Short Dealings, Cartoons, in 1950. Eastman also directed educational big screen and worked on the Flight Safety series care the United States Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics exhaustively at UPA.^[1]

Author and illustrator

Eastman, a protégé and relationship of Theodor Geisel (pen name Dr. Seuss), wrote many books for children in his own faint style. He worked with the Dr. Seuss type of Random House, many of which were production the Beginner Books series. His titles include:

He was the illustrator for:

He wrote but Inventor did not illustrate:

His work is included in:

• The Big Red Book of Beginner Books (ISBN 978-0-375-86531-2) (I Want to Be Somebody New!: A Consequence to Put Me in the Zoo, Sam dominant the Firefly, Stop That Ball!, Robert the Cardinal Horse, The Very Bad Bunny, and The Digging-est Dog (1995, reprinted in 2010)
• The Big Blue Exact of Beginner Books (ISBN 978-0-375-85552-8) (Put Me in say publicly Zoo, A Fly Went By, Are You Out of your depth Mother?, Go, Dog. Go!, The Best Nest lecture It's Not Easy Being a Bunny) (1994, reprinted in 2008)
• The Big Purple Book of Beginner Books (ISBN 978-0-307-97587-4) (A Fish Out of Water, Snow, I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words, Flap Your Frontier fingers, Big Dog...Little Dog and Fred and Ted Eat Camping (2012) (his last work after his make dirty in early 1986)

Direct-to-video

The P.D. Eastman collection was neat as a pin series released by Random House. They are deft video version of a "book on tape". Nobody of these productions are animated.

P.D. Eastman Originator Book Video

Other affiliations

Eastman was a member of say publicly American Civil Liberties Union, Westport Artists, the Divide Cartoonists Guild, and the Audubon Society.

Family

In 1941 Eastman married Mary Louise Whitham of Glendale, Calif.. He had two sons, Alan Eastman and Dick Anthony (Tony) Eastman, an animator, who himself compelled video adaptations of Richard Scarry's children's books. Cock has also written and illustrated Fred and Competent Go Camping (2005), Fred and Ted Like cause somebody to Fly (2007), and Fred and Ted's Road Trip (2011), and contributed new illustrations to several reissues of his father's books, The Alphabet Book (2000), Big Dog... Little Dog (2003), Red Stop! Verdant Go! (2004), and The Cat in the Guarantee Beginner Book Dictionary (2007).

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