Garth Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American children's illustrator
Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1912
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 08-May-1996
Profession: comics artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Garth Williams
- Garth Montgomery Williams (April 16, 1912 – May 8, 1996) was a well known American illustrator for children's book/literature from the 20th century.
- Williams is most notable for his illustrations in classic American children's books such as Charlotte's Web.
- William's was inspired by his parents who were both artists of some kind as well.
- William's attended the Westminster School of Art and the Royal Academy in London where he received his training for articular crafts and drawing.
- He later had received the Prix de Rome which is a high-honor French scholarship for art students, and will allow those to live and study in the Italian capital of Rome free of expenses.
- He eventually moved back to his birth city in New York in October 1941 to continue his works and partnering with E.B.
- White.
- Many of the books he illustrated have become classics of American children's literature.
- A notable exception are the illustrations he created for an adult audience in A Room for the Night by Pauline Leader, Vanguard Press, 1946. In Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and in the Little House series of books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Williams['s] drawings have become inseparable from how we think of those stories.
- In that respect ...
- Williams['s] work belongs in the same class as Sir John Tenniel's drawings for Alice in Wonderland, or Ernest Shepard's illustrations for Winnie the Pooh. His friendly, fuzzy baby animals populated a dozen Little Golden Books. Mel Gussow in The New York Times wrote, "He believed that books 'given, or read, to children can have a profound influence!' For that reason, he said, he used his illustrations to try to 'awaken something of importance ...
- humor, responsibility, respect for others, interest in the world at large!'"
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