Margot Zemach
Writer, Author
1931 – 1989
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Who was Margot Zemach?
Margot Zemach was an American illustrator of more than forty children's books, some of which she also wrote. Many were adaptations of folk tales from around the world, especially Yiddish and other Eastern European stories. She and her husband Harvey Fichstrom, writing as Harve Zemach, collaborated on several picture books including Duffy and the Devil for which she won the 1974 Caldecott Medal.
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- Born
- Nov 30, 1931
Los Angeles - Spouses
- Harve Zemach
(1957 - 1974)
- Harve Zemach
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 21, 1989
Berkeley
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on July 23, 2013
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