death_date death_place birth_place influences imagesize awards nationality notableworks birth_date period genre article_title name occupation
13 july 2013 cornwall , connecticut , u.s. paris , france robert mccloskey 150px caldecott medal 1957 american nate the great series 23 november 1915 1939 -- 2013 children 's literature including picture books marc simont
 marc simont artist , cartoonist , illustrator
marc simont

marc simont -lrb- november 23 , 1915 -- july 13 , 2013 -rrb- was a paris-born american artist , political cartoonist , and illustrator of more than a hundred children 's books .
inspired by his father , spanish painter joseph simont , he began drawing at an early age .
simont settled in new york city in 1935 after encouragement from his father , attended the new york national school of design , and served three years in the military .
simont 's first illustrated children 's book was published in 1939 .
he won the 1957 caldecott medal for u.s. children 's book illustration , recognizing `` a tree is nice '' by janice may udry , and he was a runner-up both in 1950 -lrb- `` the happy day '' by ruth krauss -rrb- and in 2002 -lrb- `` the stray dog : from a true story by reiko sassa '' retold by simont -rrb- .
he also illustrated `` the 13 clocks '' , recruited by the writer james thurber -lrb- 1950 -rrb- ; `` in the year of the boar and jackie robinson '' by bette lord -lrb- 1984 -rrb- ; `` top secret '' by john reynolds gardiner -lrb- 1995 -rrb- ; `` my brother , ant '' by betsy byars -lrb- 1996 -rrb- ; and `` the beautiful planet : ours to lose '' , which he also wrote -lrb- 2010 -rrb- .
simont and writer marjorie sharmat created the boy detective nate the great in 1972 and he illustrated the first twenty cases , through 1998 .
the series has continued with illustrations `` in the style of marc simont '' .
one library catalog record for `` nate the great and the hungry book club '' -lrb- delacorte , 2009 -rrb- credits `` by marjorie weinman sharmat and mitchell sharmat ; illustrated by jody wheeler in the style of marc simont '' , although the closing explanation is not on the front cover .
as cartoonist for the `` lakeville journal '' -lrb- connecticut -rrb- he won the 2007 james aronson award for social justice journalism from hunter college .
he died at his home in in west cornwall , connecticut on 13 july 2013 at the age of 97 .
he is survived by his wife sara `` bee '' dalton .
