Name
Hutton, Warwick Gender: M
Warwick B. Hutton
born on 17 July 1939 at 16:00 (= 4:00 PM )
Place London, England, 51n30, 0w10
Timezone BST h1e (is daylight saving time)
Data source
Quoted BC/BR
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.svg s_cancol.18.svg 24°08' s_mo.18.svg s_leocol.18.svg 04°44 Asc.s_scocol.18.svg 18°39'



Biography

British painter, glass engraver, illustrator, and children's author, most widely known for elegant pen and ink and watercolour illustrations for children’s books.

His subjects were Biblical, folk, and mythological stories which Hutton retold, such as Noah and the Great Flood, The Nose Tree, and Theseus and the Minotaur. He also worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen (The Tinderbox) and with retellings of traditional stories by author Susan Cooper (The Silver Cow, The Selkie Girl, Tam Lin).

The Nose Tree and Jonah and the Big Fish were chosen for the New York Times’s annual list of best-illustrated children's books. Jonah and the Great Fish was also the recipient of the 1984 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book.

Hutton died of cancer on 28 September 1994 in Cambridge, England at age 55. His parents were the artist and glass engraver John Hutton and the New Zealand modern artist Helen Blair.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

  • Relationship : Marriage 26 August 1965 (Elizabeth Mills)
    chart Placidus Equal_H.

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes Hutton, “I was born two months before the start of World War II, at 4.00 in the afternoon. It says the time on my birth certificate, because I am a twin. My brother was born at 3.30, so in English law (but not in some others) he is older than me.” (Something about the Author: Autobiography Series, Volume 17, Gale Research Incorporated, 1994, page 157).

Place of birth from England & Wales Civil Registration Birth Index; day and month from Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Works, Volumes 61-64, page 267.

Categories

  • Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Terminal)
  • Family : Childhood : Family noted (Both parents, artists)
  • Personal : Birth : Twin, triplet, etc. (Younger of twin brothers)
  • Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Cancer)
  • Vocation : Art : Commercial artist (Illustrator of children's books)
  • Vocation : Art : Fine art artist (Painter, glass engraver)
  • Vocation : Writers : Children's literature
  • Vocation : Writers : Fiction
  • Notable : Awards : Vocational award