National bestselling author Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer to appear on the 2010 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Norton Juster grew up in Brooklyn, studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and spent a year in Liverpool, England, a Fulbright scholarship to do graduate work in urban planning and learning to ride a bike. After three years in the U.S. Navy (1954-1957) worked as an architect in New York. He opened his own firm and in a fewHe moved to Western Massachusetts and is expanding its practice Juster-Pope-Frazier. Their plans for the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, were the educational and cultural projects throughout New England and a series of buildings for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia. Juster taught architecture and planning at the Pratt Institute in New York and became a professor of design at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, 1970-1992. He began writing seriously while in the Navy. His firstBook, "The Phantom tollbooth 1961st was published as the winner of the George C. Stone Center for Children's Books Award, is recognized as a classic and is still enjoyed by children and adults all over the world. Juster's writing and teaching the practice of architecture in retirement, but continues. He is the author of the recently published "the odious Ogre" (Michael di Capua Books), illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Juster lives in Massachusetts. Speaker Biography: Cartoonist...
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