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Ness, Evaline

LC control no.n 80005686
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3564.E787
Personal name headingNess, Evaline
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1911-04-24
Death date1986-08-12
Place of birthUnion City (Ohio)
Place of deathKingston (N.Y.)
Field of activityChildren's literature
Profession or occupationIllustrators Authors
Found inHer Josefina February, c1963.
Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Dec. 22, 2009 (Evaline (Michelow) Ness; b. Apr. 24, 1911, Union City, Ohio; d. Aug. 12, 1986, Kingston, N.Y.; artist, tapestry designer, illustrator, and author of children's books)
Buckley, Helen E. Josie and the snow, 1964: title page (illustrated by Evaline Ness)
Ness, Evaline. Sam, Bangs & Moonshine, 1966: title page (written and illustrated by Evaline Ness)
Artemis Literary Sources, accessed February 13, 2016: "Evaline (Michelow) Ness," Philip A. Sadler, American Writers for Children Since 1960: Poets, Illustrators, and Nonfiction Authors, 1987 (Evaline Michelow ... was born 24 April 1911, in Union City, Ohio. Two years later the family moved to Pontiac, Michigan, where she grew up and attended high school ... Between 1933 and 1935, she studied painting and anatomy at the Art Institute of Chicago ... In 1938 she married Eliot Ness ... The Nesses divorced in 1946. In 1959 Ness married Arnold A. Bayard ... After her three Caldecott Honor Books, Ness finally achieved top recognition in the field of American children's book illustration in 1967 for her Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine ... her death on 12 August 1986)
Associated languageeng