Gloria Kamen, 96, writer/illustrator: "Edward Lear, King of Nonsense," 1990

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Not to be confused with the writer of the "Ask Gloria" column, who co-authored "Secrets of a Jewish Mother" and appeared on TV's "The Real Housewives of New York City."

https://www.vnews.com/gloria-charney-obit-vn-090519-28245175

PHOENIX, AZ — Gloria Kamen Charney died on August 18, 2019 at age 96 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Born in Queens, New York, April 9, 1923, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Gloria graduated from Pratt Institute in NYC and married Elliot Charney. They lived in the Washington DC area for 35 years. In the 1970’s they bought land in Hartland, VT, and with the help of builder Stuart Shepard, they designed and built a house using the foundation stone, beams, and siding from the old barn and retired there in 1993. Gloria was involved in the life of the Upper Valley, giving “chalk talks” at the Hartland elementary school, exhibiting her art at local galleries, and befriending many local artists and writers.

An accomplished artist and illustrator, Gloria often claimed that she pursued art because she feared her hearing loss would prevent her from teaching or other careers. Under her maiden name, Gloria Kamen, she illustrated over 40 children’s books, including the Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls (1957). Her sketches of actors in rehearsal accompanied theater reviews in The Washington Post. Gloria wrote eight books for children and young adults including “Paddle,” Said the Swan, The Second-Hand Cat, and biographies of Charlie Chaplin and Rudyard Kipling. Her interest in women composers inspired her to paint a series of portraits of composers, beginning with Fanny Mendelssohn. Her work was exhibited at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts (NYC), at the Hartland Library, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital, and at galleries in VT, NH, MN, MA, AZ, and OH.

Gloria is survived by daughters Tina, Ruth, and Juliet Charney, and grandchildren Daniel and Ethan Cecchetti and Nathan and Alisa Partlan.



https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=J7p2Xaq0OOiiggewp5HQDw&q=gloria+kamen+kirkus&oq=gloria+kamen+kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1156.5453..5679...0.0..0.197.1519.18j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i131j0j0i10j0i22i30j33i299j33i160.cG5LeqNY7sc&ved=0ahUKEwjq446QzsTkAhVokeAKHbBTBPoQ4dUDCAc&uact=5
(a few Kirkus reviews)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/118352.Gloria_Kamen
(reader reviews - one or two books are by the other Kamen)


Birthday post from 2013 (most of it):


She...is probably best known for illustrating four "Miss Manners" books by Judith Martin.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=gloria+kamen&pics=on&sortby=7&x=0&y=0
(some covers)

http://tinyurl.com/4syo8v
(thread regarding the "Rupert Piper" books - Kamen illustrated 3 of them)

"She has made her career as an illustrator, and later an author, and has received several awards for her illustrations. She writes both fiction and non-fiction for children. Her non-fiction, all self-illustrated, consists of biographical works of Rudyard Kipling, Charlie Chaplin, Fiorello La Guardia, Edward Lear, and Fanny Mendelssohn."

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/gloria-kamen
"Gloria Kamen has illustrated over forty books for children and adults, including five of Judith Martin's Miss Manners series, "The White House Children, Paddle Said the Swan" and "Second Hand Cat." Several of her books have been Junior Library Guild selections. She was a theater caricaturist for the" Washington Post" and was also worked for Washington Educational Television."

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
SELF-ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Fiorello, His Honor: The Little Flower, Atheneum, 1981.
Charlie Chaplin, Atheneum, 1982.
Rudyard Kipling, Storyteller of East and West, Atheneum, 1985.
The Ringdoves, Atheneum, 1988.
"Paddle," Said the Swan, Atheneum, 1989.


Edward Lear, King of Nonsense, Atheneum, 1990.
Second-Hand Cat, Atheneum, 1992.
Hidden Music: The Life of Fanny Mendelssohn, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996.


ILLUSTRATOR


Ann Guy, One Dozen Brownies, Abingdon, 1962.
Hughie Call, The Little Kingdom, Houghton, 1964.
Elizabeth Goudge, A Book of Comfort, Coward, 1964.
Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls, Western Publishing, 1966.
Ethylyn Parkinson, The Operation That Happened to Rupert Piper, Abingdon, 1966.
Joan Lexau, Three Wishes for Abner, Ginn, 1967.
Phyllis Naylor, To Shake a Shadow, Abingdon, 1967.
Barbara Klimowicz, The Strawberry Thumb, Abingdon, 1968.
Lila Sheppard, Wiki Wants to Read, Whitman Publishing, 1968.


Ruth Hooker, Gertrude Kloppenberg, Private, Abingdon, 1970.
Klimowicz, When Shoes Eat Socks, Abingdon, 1971.
Valerie Pitt, Let's Find Out About the Family, F. Watts, 1971.
Parkinson, Rupert Piper and Megan, the Valuable Girl, Abingdon, 1972.
Barbara Todd, Juan Patricio, Putnam, 1972.
Hooker, Gertrude Kloppenberg II, Abingdon, 1974.
Jean Leifheit, Drugs, Your Friends, Standard Publishing, 1974.
Leifheit, Drugs, Your Enemies, Standard Publishing, 1974.
Edna S. Levine, Lisa and Her Soundless World, Behavioral Publications, 1974.
Parkinson, Rupert Piper & the Dear, Dear Birds, 1976
Barbara Brooks Wallace, Hawkins, 1977
Miriam Ann Bourne, White House Children, Random House, 1979.
Alfred Meyer, editor, A Zoo for All Seasons: The Smithsonian Animal World, 1979


Barbara Wallace, The Contest Kid Strikes Again, Abingdon, 1980.
Bourne, The Children of Mount Vernon, Doubleday, 1980.
Wallace, Hawkins and the Soccer Solution, 1981
K. C. Tessendorf, Look Out, Here Comes the Stanley Steamer, Atheneum, 1983.
Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Atheneum, 1983.
Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children, Atheneum, 1984.
Martin, Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn of the Millennium, 1989


Siggy's Spaghetti Works, Tambourine Books, 1993.
Martin, Miss Manners on Painfully Proper Weddings, 1995.
Take Me Out to the Bat and Ball Factory, A. Whitman & Co., 1998.


Lenona.