![]() ![]() Other books to which he contributed include Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1928), Carl Sandburg’s Abe Lincoln Grows Up (1928), Hildegarde Swift’s The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War (1932), and Mabel Leigh Hunt’s Better Known as Johnny Appleseed (1950). He began by drawing for Stewart Edward White’s Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout (1926). During World War I he camouflaged ships and designed war posters for the United States Navy.ĭaugherty first made a name for himself in children’s literature by illustrating the works of others. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the London School of Art. James Henry Daugherty was born on June 1, 1889, in Asheville, N.C. He won the Newbery Medal in 1940 for the biography Daniel Boone (1939). author and illustrator James Daugherty often centered on famous figures in U.S. Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. ![]()
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