Peter Newell
Christmas Fairy with Elf
The Dwarfs Discover Little Snow Drop
Man Running from Elephants
Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924) was an American artist and author.
A native of McDonough County, Illinois, Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Scribner's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Judge, and other publications. He later wrote and illustrated several popular children's books, such as Topsys and Turvys (1893), a collection of poems and images which could be viewed upside-down or right-side-up; The Hole Book (1908), which had a literal hole at the center of each page to indicate the path of a bullet; and The Slant Book[1] (1910), which took the shape of a rhomboid and told the story of a baby carriage careening down a hill.[2]
Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll. He also created a comic strip serial, The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead, which debuted in the New York Herald in 1905. He died in Little Neck, New York in 1924.[2]
References
"From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division".
Dennis Wepman "Newell, Peter" American National Biography Online. February 2000. Retrieved on July 6, 2009.
External links
Works by Peter Newell at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Peter Newell at Internet Archive
Works by Peter Newell at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Peter Newell's Books at nonsenselit.org
The Rocket Book From the Collections at the Library of Congress
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