Marjorie Torrey
American illustrator and writer
Marjorie Torrey Hood Chanslor (November 10, 1891 – September 1, 1964) [1] was an American illustrator and writer of children's books . She also wrote two mystery novels for adults under the name Torrey Chanslor and published under the name Torrey Bevans . She was a runner-up for the annual American Library Association Caldecott Medal for children's picture book illustration, in both 1946 and 1947; Opal Wheeler wrote both books, Sing Mother Goose and Sing in Praise ). [2]
Personal life
Chanslor was born in Brooklyn in 1891 to William A. Hood (1860–1918) and Caroline Lincoln Torrey (1861–1949). [1]
In 1911, she married Thomas Murray Bevans (1879–1953 ) in Jersey City, New Jersey . He was previously married to Anna Fessenden Bradley (1900). They had a son, Tom Torre Bevans (1912–2003 ), who renewed copyright to several of her books in the 1970s. Her son was married to Margaret Van Doren Bevans, also a writer and illustrator. [3]
She married secondly screenwriter Roy Edwin Chanslor (1899–1964 ), who wrote The Menace . [4] In April 1935, she was fined $1,450 ( equivalent to $31,000 in 2022 ) for throwing a cocktail at screenwriter Lon Young at a New Year's Eve party at the Cafe Trocadero nightclub in Los Angeles. [5]
She died on September 1, 1964 in Manhattan, at age 72. [6] There was no service, per her request. [7]
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- Sarah's idea (1938), illustrator
- Our First Murder ( Frederick A. Stokes , 1940) – mystery fiction for adults, featuring the Beagle Sisters, LCCN 40-13519
- Our Second Murder (Stokes, 1941), LCCN 41-3902
- Penny (1944)
- Artie and the Princess (1945)
- Three Little Chipmunks (1947)
- The Merriweathers (1949)
- New star of the show (1949), illustrator
- Alice in Wonderland (1955), illustrator
- Far from Marlborough Street
- Trouble for Jerry Doris Gages, illustrator
- Saturday Night is My Delight
- Sing Mother Goose , written by Opal Wheeler ( E. P. Dutton , 1945)
- Sing in Praise: a collection of the best loved hymns , by Opal Wheeler (Dutton, 1946)
- Abide with Me , illustrator
- Hoodoo that Voodoo , illustrator
- Songs to sing with the very young , by Phyllis Brown Ohanian (1966)
- Peter Pan (Random House, Inc. 1957), illustrator, LCCN 57-7525
References
- 1 2 Marjorie Torrey Chanslor in U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 . Social Security Administration .
- ↑ "Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present" . American Library Association. 1999-11-30 . Retrieved 22 April 2010 .
- ↑ Howe, Marvine (July 18, 1993). "Margaret Van Doren Bevans, 75, Children's Author and Illustrator" . The New York Times . Retrieved July 12, 2017 .
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CHANSLOR, ROY: Writer, b. Liberty. Mo.
- ↑ "Glass Thrower Taxed". San Antonio Express . Associated Press. April 30, 1935.
- ↑ Marjo(rie) Chanslor in New York, New York, Death Index, 1949-1965
- ↑ "Deaths" . The New York Times . September 4, 1964 . Retrieved July 12, 2017 .
External links
- ALSC
- Marjorie Torrey at Library of Congress , with 6 library catalog records
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