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Ashley Bryan was born on 13 July, 1923 in New York City, U.S., is an American children's writer and illustrator (1923–2022). Discover Ashley Bryan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 98 years old?

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Occupation Writer, illustrator, teacher
Age 98 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 13 July, 1923
Birthday 13 July
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Date of death 4 February, 2022
Died Place Sugar Land, Texas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1923

Ashley Frederick Bryan (July 13, 1923 – February 4, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience.

Ashley Frederick Bryan was born on July 13, 1923, in Harlem and raised in the Bronx, both in New York City.

His father worked as a printer of greeting cards and loved birds, and Bryan remembered their apartment as full of a hundred birds.

He was born the second of six children and grew up with his three cousins.

1930

Bryan recalled his childhood in New York City during the 1930s as an idyllic time, full of art and music.

He learned to draw, paint, and play instruments at school from artists and musicians participating in the Work Projects Administration program.

With books he checked out from the library, Bryan made his own, temporary collection at home.

He particularly enjoyed poetry, folktales, and fairy tales; stories that could be told within a brief span of pages.

Bryan attended the Cooper Union Art School, the only African-American student at that time.

He had applied to other schools who had rejected him on the basis of race, but Cooper Union administered its scholarships in a blind test.

At the age of nineteen, World War II interrupted his studies.

He was drafted into the U.S. Army and assigned to serve in a segregated unit as a member of a Port Battalion, landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day.

He was so ill-suited to this work that his fellow soldiers often encouraged him to step aside and draw.

He always kept a sketch pad in his gas mask.

His book, Infinite Hope, is an autobiographical journey during the war.

1946

In 1946, he enrolled at Columbia University School of General Studies to study philosophy.

After the war, Bryan received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Marseille at Aix-en-Provence and later returning for two years to study at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

Bryan taught art at Queen's College, Philadelphia College of Art, the Dalton School, Lafayette College, and Dartmouth College.

1980

In the late 1980s, when Bryan retired from Dartmouth, he moved to Islesford, Maine, on Little Cranberry Island.

1988

He retired as emeritus professor of art at Dartmouth in 1988.

1994

He also received the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion from the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival in 1994.

2002

The Ashley Bryan Art series was established at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center of the Broward County Library in 2002.

Dr.Henrietta M. Smith, Professor Emerita at the University of South Florida (USF) School of Information, worked with the Broward County Library to establish the children's book author and illustrator art series named for Ashley Bryan.

2003

Dr. Smith was also the lector for the 2003 Alice G. Smith Lecture, a lecture series held at the USF School of Information "to honor the memory of its first director, Alice Gullen Smith, known for her work with youth and bibliotherapy."

2006

He was U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009.

For his lifetime work as a children's illustrator, Bryan was U.S. nominee in 2006 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition for creators of children's books.

2008

In 2008 Bryan was named a Literary Lion by The New York Public Library.

In 2008, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American History and Culture housed in the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library hosted the "Ashley Bryan Children's Literary Festival."

2009

Bryan has received two American Library Association career literary awards for his "significant and lasting contributions", the 2009 Wilder Medal and the 2012 King–Hamilton Award.

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) biennially recognizes one writer or illustrator of children's books published in the U.S. The committee named Dancing Granny, Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum, and Beautiful Blackbird in particular and cited his "varied art forms".

The Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award from the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) biennially recognizes one African-American writer or illustrator of children's or young-adult literature.

2012

In 2012 the Ashley Bryan Art series celebrated ten years of exhibits and programs.

"The series began with Ashley Bryan submitting eight original art pieces to the library to serve as core of the art collection."

2013

The Ashley Bryan Center (501c3) was formed in 2013 to preserve, protect and care for Bryan's art, his collections, his books and to promote his legacy.

2016

His picture book Freedom Over Me was short-listed for the 2016 Kirkus Prize and received a Newbery Honor.

2019

He lived there until he moved to Sugar Land, Texas, where his niece lived, in 2019.

In 2019, the Center and University of Pennsylvania reached an agreement to archive Bryan's works at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts.

Bryan died at his niece's home on February 4, 2022, at the age of 98.

He had congestive heart failure.