{"id":1376,"date":"2014-10-18T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2014-10-18T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:45:11","slug":"cuffari-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/cuffari-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuffari, Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1380 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_slump.jpg\" alt=\"Slumps, Grunts, and Snickerdoodles\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1379 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_peril.jpg\" alt=\"Perilous Gard\" width=\"120\" height=\"184\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1378 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_jacki1.jpg\" alt=\"Thank You, Jackie Robinson\" width=\"120\" height=\"177\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1381 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_three.jpg\" alt=\"Three-Legged Deer\" width=\"120\" height=\"181\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Richard Cuffari was born on March 2nd, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York.\u00a0<\/strong>Cuffari won numerous awards for his artwork, even as a high school student, but his immigrant parents couldn&#8217;t do much financially to help him. After serving in the Army during WW2, Cuffari enrolled at Pratt Institute and graduated in 1949. Cuffari began a career as a children&#8217;s book illustrator in 1966, with his first project,\u00a0<em>The Wind in the Willows<\/em>. He went on to illustrate nearly 200 books, specializing in historical and non-fiction books. He was awarded the Society of Illustrators&#8217; Citation of Merit and the Christopher Award. Cuffari died in 1978.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014\u00a0Karen Ritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Cuffari was born on March 2nd, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York.\u00a0Cuffari won numerous awards for his artwork, even as a high school student, but his immigrant parents couldn&#8217;t do much financially to help him. After serving in the Army during WW2, Cuffari enrolled at Pratt Institute and graduated in 1949. 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