{"id":3044,"date":"2015-04-22T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2015-04-22T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:55:45","slug":"marshall-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/marshall-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall, James"},"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-3045 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ph_marsh.jpg\" alt=\"James Marshall\" width=\"140\" height=\"193\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3046 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_gm.jpg\" alt=\"George and Martha\" width=\"140\" height=\"152\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3047 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_red.jpg\" alt=\"Red Riding Hood\" width=\"110\" height=\"140\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3048 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_ball.jpg\" alt=\"Stupids Have a Ball\" width=\"140\" height=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>James Marshall was born on October 10, 1942 in San Antonio, Texas, where his father worked for the railroad and had a dance band.<\/p>\n<p>James studied the viola and received a scholarship for the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He intended to have a musical career until he injured his hand when jerked out of his seat during an airplane flight. He studied French under Harry Allard at Trinity College, later a good friend and collaborator. Upon graduation, James taught Spanish at a Catholic school near Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">His first book, <i class=\"text10pt\">George and Martha<\/i>, was inspired by the famous play &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&#8221; while he was sketching in a hammock. He went on to write and illustrate over 70 books for children. He died in October of 1992.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">If you are in the Minneapolis\/St. Paul area, visit the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota to see his original sketch notebook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Karen Ritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Marshall was born on October 10, 1942 in San Antonio, Texas, where his father worked for the railroad and had a dance band. James studied the viola and received a scholarship for the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He intended to have a musical career until he injured his hand when jerked &#8230; <a title=\"Marshall, James\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/marshall-james\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Marshall, James\">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":[1044],"tags":[542,432,408,2142,2140,369,2139,933,2141],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m","tag-author","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-george-and-martha","tag-harry-allard","tag-illustrator","tag-james-marshall","tag-kerlan-collection","tag-whos-afriad-of-virginia-woolf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-N6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","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=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}