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Glen Rounds (1906-2002)
Award winning American author and illustrator. Born in South Dakota in 1906, he grew up on ranches in Montana and then studied art in Kansas. Before becoming an author, he did a variety of jobs including working as a cowboy and a carnival medicine man! His books, unsurprisingly given his background, are almost all of the cowboy/ranching type theme, and those which are horse-related usually fit into this framework too. Many of them are also for younger readers, although can be read by all ages.
Glen Rounds illustrated both his own books and those of other authors. When severe arthritis in his right arm prevented him from drawing, he learned to draw left-handed, so that some of his later books have illustrations with a different style!
(Sources: Obituary, New York Times)
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