Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman
Birth name	Maira Kalman
Born	1949 Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality	American
Field	illustrator, author

Maira Kalman, born in 1949, is an American illustrator, author, artist, and designer. Born in Tel Aviv, Kalman came to New York City with her family at age 4.^[1] She attended the High School of Music and Art, now LaGuardia High School.^[2]

Ms. Kalman has authored a series of children's books about Max Stravinsky, the poet-dog. She has done covers for The New Yorker, including one she did with Rick Meyerowitz called New Yorkistan. She created the sets for the Mark Morris Dance Group production of Four Saints in Three Acts, an opera by Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein.

Kalman is also known for her illustrations for the 2005 edition of the popular guide to writing style, The Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E.B. White.

Maira Kalman was married to the designer Tibor Kalman until his death in 1999. Together, the two ran the design company M&Co. The company remains successful today.

Ms. Kalman wrote the monthly illustrated blog The Principles of Uncertainty for The New York Times for one year, ending in April 2007.^[3] The blog was published in a book of the same title, which was released in 2007 to critical acclaim. Kalman started a new illustrated blog in the New York Times called "And the Pursuit of Happiness" about American democracy on January 30, 2009. The first entry chronicled her visit to Washington, D.C. for President Barack Obama's inauguration. Kalman's work is also featured on Rosenbach Museum and Library's 21st Century Abe project.

Kalman is represented by the Julie Saul Gallery in New York City.

More recently she illustrated Daniel Handler's picture book 13 Words.

Bibliography

• Stay Up Late (1985) Viking Kestrel ISBN 978-0670844791

• Hey Willie, See the Pyramids (1988) Viking ISBN 978-0140508406

• Sayonara, Mrs. Kackleman (1989) Viking Kestrel ISBN 0670829455

• Max Makes a Million (1990) Viking Penguin ISBN 978-0670835454

• Roarr, Calder's Circus (1991) Delacorte Press ISBN 978-0385309165

• Max In Hollywood, Baby (1992) Viking Penguin ISBN 978-0670844791

• Chicken Soup, Boots (1993) Viking Penguin ISBN 978-0670852017

• Ooh-la-la, Max in Love (1994) Viking Penguin ISBN 978-0140555370

• Swami on Rye: Max in India (1995) Viking Penguin ISBN 978-0670856466

• Max deluxe ISBN 978-0670868377

• Next Stop Grand Central (1999) Putnam ISBN 978-0399229268

• (un)Fashion (with her husband Tibor Kalman) ISBN 978-0810992290

• What Pete Ate From A to Z (2001) Putnam ISBN 978-0142501597

• Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey (2002) Putnam ISBN 9780399239533

• Colors : Tibor Kalman, Issues 1-13 (with her husband Tibor Kalman) ISBN 0810904144

• Smartypants (Pete In School) ISBN 0399234780

• The Elements of Style ISBN 978-0143112723

• The Principles of Uncertainty ISBN 978-1594201349

• Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World), DelMonico Prestel München 2010 ISBN 978-3-7913-5035-6

External links

• Maira Kalman in conversation with Paul Holdengraber at LIVE from the New York Public Library October 23, 2007
• Maira Kalman's Image Gallery
• Interview with Maira Kalman in Nashville Review
• Ms. Kalman's webpage
• Ms. Kalman's biography
• TED Talks: Maira Kalman, the illustrated woman at TED in 2007
• Heller, Steven (Spring 2003). Maira Kalman, the surviving spirit of M&Co. 12. Eye Quantum Publishing. http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=85&fid=456. Retrieved 2010-01-03. 
• Ahora: Interview with Maira Kalman
• "Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)" Exhibition (2011) at The Jewish Museum New York.

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Name	Kalman, Maira
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Date of birth	1949
Place of birth	Tel Aviv, Israel
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