{"id":2452,"date":"2014-12-14T19:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2014-12-14T19:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:55:47","slug":"shimin-symeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/shimin-symeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimin, Symeon"},"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-2453 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ph_shimn.jpg\" alt=\"Symeon Shimin\" width=\"144\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ph_shimn.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ph_shimn-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2454 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bk_onion.jpg\" alt=\"Onion John\" width=\"120\" height=\"174\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2455 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bk_zeely.jpg\" alt=\"Zeely\" width=\"116\" height=\"174\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2456 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bk_sam.jpg\" alt=\"Sam\" width=\"130\" height=\"163\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Symeon Shimin was born on November 1, 1902 in Astrakhan, Russia. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, where his parents ran a delicatessen. He was primarily self-taught. At age 16, he apprenticed himself to a commercial artist. In 1938, he was commissioned to paint a mural at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>He illustrated his first picture book when Hermann and Nina Scheider revised their <i class=\"text10pt\">How Big is Big?<\/i> in 1950. He illustrated Virginia Hamilton\u2019s <i>Zeely<\/i>, Joseph Krumgold\u2019s <i>Onion John<\/i>, and Madeleine L\u2019Engle\u2019s <i>Dance in the Desert<\/i>, among many others. Mr. Shimin died in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symeon Shimin was born on November 1, 1902 in Astrakhan, Russia. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, where his parents ran a delicatessen. He was primarily self-taught. At age 16, he apprenticed himself to a commercial artist. In 1938, he was commissioned to paint a mural at the Department of Justice in Washington, &#8230; <a title=\"Shimin, Symeon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/shimin-symeon\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Shimin, Symeon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1047],"tags":[432,408,369,1716,1715],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-illustrator","tag-onion-john","tag-symeon-shimin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-Dy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}