Myrtle Sheldon
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Comment: Fails WP:NCREATIVE/WP:ANYBIO - requires significant coverage (not merely a series of mentions in passing) in multiple independent secondary sources. Dan arndt (talk) 06:56, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
- Criteria 3 of the guideline says:
"The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series) or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews."
This is clearly satisfied miltiple times over. FloridaArmy (talk) 23:50, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Myrtle Sheldon (born c. 1893) was an illustrator in the United States.
Sheldon was African-American, and, according to biographic information at the Library of Congress, she was born about 1893.[1] She illustrated many children's books, some without attribution at the time of publication. Those publicly credited include A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Ellen Tarry's Janie Belle (1940) and the 1932 Newbery Honor winning children's book Boy of the South Seas (1931) by Eunice Tietjens. Tarry’s work was particularly notable, as Janie Belle was one of the first children’s picture books with an African-American author published in the United States.[2]
Actress Kathy Bates listed the Stevenson book as one of her favorites and lauded Sheldon's drawings.[3]
Works
Works illustrated by Sheldon include:
- The Little Lame Prince (1910) by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and Myrtle Sheldon.[4]
- A Child's Garden of Verses (1919) by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Boy of the South Seas (1931) by Eunice Tietjens. Received the Newbery Honor in 1932.[5]
- Jerry Todd's Up-The-Ladder Club (1937) and Jerry Todd's Poodle Parlor (1938) both by Leo Edwards
- Mary and Marie (1938) by Helen Valentine
- Harry, the Horse (1939) by Joan Mosely
- We Call it Human Nature (1939) by Paul Grabbe[6]
- Ginger Blue (1940) by Charles Morrow Wilson[7]
- Janie Belle (1940) by Ellen Tarry[2]
References
- ^ Sheldon, Myrtle. "LC Catalog - Browse". catalog.loc.gov. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- ^ a b Tarry, Ellen (April 30, 1992). The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman. University of Alabama Press. pp. 150–151. ISBN 9780817305796. Retrieved June 7, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Kathy Bates's Favorite Books of All-Time". Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- ^ Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock; Sheldon, Myrtle (1910). The little lame prince. M.A. Donohue.
- ^ "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present". American Library Association. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series. United States Copyright Office. December 5, 1941. p. 2078 – via Google Books.
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series. United States Copyright Office. 1941. p. 5361. Retrieved June 7, 2020 – via Google Books.
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