Edward Frascino

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Edward Frascino is an American illustrator and author. He is perhaps best known for his illustrations in E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan . [1]

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Biography

Frascino is the son of Mario and Rose Frascino. He is of Albanian and Italian descent.

He attended Parson's School of Design. He served in the U.S. Army in Korea from 1951 to 1953. [1]

His cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker in a regular series as well as in Punch, Saturday Review , and The New York Times. [1]

Selected works

As author and illustrator

As author

As illustrator

As contributor

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Edward Frascino". Contemporary Authors. 2011-06-09 via Gale.
  2. Holtze, Sally Holmes (1983). Fifth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators. H.W. Wilson Company. ISBN   978-0-8242-0694-9.
  3. "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  4. "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  5. "Children's Book Review: Nanny Noony and the Magic Spell by Edward Frascino, Author Pippin Press $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-945912-00-2". PublishersWeekly.com. January 1988. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  6. "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2020-04-04.

Further reading

Frascino, Edward (1990). Nakamura, Joyce (ed.). "Autobiography Series". Something About the Author via Gale.