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Margret Rey

Children's illustrator and writer (–)

Margret Rey
Margret Rey with her husband, H. A. Rey
Born	Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein ()May 16, Hamburg, German Empire
Died	December 21, () (aged&#;90) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Writer, illustrator
Education	Bauhaus
Genre	Children's literature
Years&#;active
Notable works	Curious George
Spouse	H. A. Rey &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;

Margret Elizabeth Rey (born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein; May 16, – December 21, ) was a German-born American writer and illustrator, best known for the Curious George series of children'spicture books that she and her husband H.

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Life

Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein was born on May 16, , in Hamburg, German Empire, the daughter of Gertrude (Rosenfeld) and Felix Waldstein.^[1]^[2]^[3] Her father was a member of the Reichstag. She studied art at Bauhaus in Dessau, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and the University of Munich between and and afterward worked in advertising.^[4] In she left Germany for Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil to escape Nazism (Nazi Germany) – and to meet Hans Reyersbach, a salesman and another German Jew from Hamburg, who had been a family friend.^[1] They married in and moved to Paris, France, in ^[5]

While in Paris, Hans's animal drawings came to the attention of a French publisher, who commissioned him to write a children's book.

The result, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys, is little remembered today, but one of its characters, an adorably impish monkey named Curious George, was such a success that the couple considered writing a book just about him.

H a rey biography Rey, Abel. Rey focused on writing the story, and her husband contributed the illustrations. They originally planned to use watercolor illustrations, but since they were responsible for the color separation, Rey changed these to the cartoon-like images that continue to be featured in each of the books. A collector's edition with the original watercolors was released in

Their work was interrupted with the outbreak of World War II. As Jews, the Reys decided to flee from Paris before the Nazis seized the city. Hans built two bicycles, and they fled Paris just a few hours before it fell. Among the meager possessions they brought with them was the illustrated manuscript of Curious George.

The Reys' odyssey brought them to the France–Spain border to enter into Spain, where they bought train tickets to Lisbon, in Portugal.

The Curious Journey of H.A. and Margret Rey - Legacy.com TechMedia Network. Rey Papers —". At the urging of an editor at Gallimard, a French publishing company, Rey worked with Hans to create a story from some humorous drawings he had done for a Paris periodical. ISBN

From there they returned to Brazil, where they had met five years earlier, but this time they continued to New York City in the United States. The books were published by Houghton Mifflin in , though certain changes had to be introduced because of the technology of the time. Hans and Margret originally planned to use watercolors to illustrate the books, but since they were responsible for the color separation, he changed these to the cartoon-like images that continue to feature in each of the books.

A collector's edition with the original watercolors was released in ^[6]

Curious George was an instant success, and the Reys were commissioned to write more adventures of the mischievous monkey and his friend, the Man with the Yellow Hat. They wrote seven stories in all, with Hans mainly doing the illustrations and Margret working mostly on the stories, though they both admitted to sharing the work and cooperating fully in every stage of development.

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At first, however, Margret's name was left off the cover, ostensibly because there was a glut of women already writing children's fiction.^{[citation needed]} In later editions, this was corrected, and Margret now receives full credit for her role in developing the stories.

Margret and her husband moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in , in a house close to Harvard Square.

Following her husband's death in , Margret continued writing, and in she became a professor of Creative Writing at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. From she collaborated with Alan Shalleck on a series of short films featuring Curious George and on more than two dozen additional books.

In Margret Rey established the Curious George Foundation to help creative children and prevent cruelty to animals.

Margaret and ha rey biography of mahatma gandhi About this article Rey, Margret — Updated About encyclopedia. In Rio, she also met up again with Hans Augusto Rey, with whom she had been acquainted for a time in Hamburg. June 6, In , she attended the famous Bauhaus in Dessau and spent the following two years studying at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art.

In , she made major donations to the Boston Public Library and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was also a long-time supporter of the Longy School of Music.

Rey died of a heart attack on December 21, , in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Collected papers

The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, holds more than boxes of Rey papers dated to ^[1]

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Margaret and ha rey biography of mahatma Pretzel , the tale of an extremely long dachshund, and Spotty , about a brown-and-white rabbit who feels unwanted by his pink-and-white siblings, were works done solely by Rey with her husband contributing the drawings. University of Southern Mississippi. Wikidata item. Pretzel , illustrated by H.

Lena Y. de Grummond, a professor in the field of library science at The University of Southern Mississippi, contacted the Reys in about USM's new children's literature collection. H. A. and Margret donated a pair of sketches at the time. When Margret Rey died in , her will designated that the entire literary estate of the Reys would be donated to the de Grummond Collection.

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