Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Leonard Marcus, author of Funny Business: Conversations With Writers of Comedy published by Candlewick.
Leonard Marcus is one of the children's book world's most respected and versatile writers, historians, and
show more...
critics.
His highly acclaimed books about
children's literature and the authors and artists who create them include: Margaret Wise Brown:
Awakened by the Moon; Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom; A Caldecott Celebration;
Author Talk; Side by Side; and
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy.
Recent children's books include Oscar: The Big Adventure of a Little Sock Monkey
(co-authored and illustrated by Amy Schwartz) and the forthcoming Pass It Down:
Five Picture-Book Families Make Their Mark.
Leonard is one of the most trusted critics in the field.
His incisive book reviews have been featured in Parenting magazine
in every issue since the monthly's founding in 1987.
In addition, Leonard has been a Parenting contributing
editor since 1988 and has directed the magazine's annual
Best Books of the Year Awards since their inception in that year.
He has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review,
Washington Post Book World, The Horn Book, Publishers Weekly,
among other publications, and is a three-time judge of the New York Times
Best Illustrated Books of the Year prize. He is a standing member of
The Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award committee and was a judge of the 1996 National Book Awards.
Leonard has been a featured guest of ABC's Good Morning America,
BBC Radio 4, C-SPAN 2 Book TV, WOR's Rambling with Gambling,
Fox Network's Good Morning Sunday, National Public Radio's All Things
Considered and Talk of the Nation, the Loose Leaf Book Company,
WNYC's Studio 360, Canadian Broadcasting Company's As It Happens,
and WHYY Philadelphia's Radio Times.
He and his wife, the picture-book artist Amy Schwartz, live with their son Jacob in Brooklyn, New York.
Visit his website.
show less...
