DEBORAH NOURSE LATTIMORE Author & Illustrator BIOGRAPHY I BOOKS I PRESENTATIONS I BOOK ORDERING
Ms. Lattimore has traveled all over the world as a scholar, an artist, and a writer. She loves creating picture books that take young readers on amazing journeys back through time to ancient and mysterious cultures. "When I'm not writing or illustrating," Deborah says, "I'm often teaching at UCLA, Art Center College of Design (in Pasadena, California), or doing workshops in the U.S. or in Europe."
She has taught creative writing at UCLA in the Writers Program for almost 15 years and at the Art Center for about 9 years. She has also begun doing workshops in the EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY gallery.
Ms. Lattimore lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
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Deborah
Nourse Lattimore began writing and illustrating books for young
and zesty readers when she was in the 6th grade in Beverly Hills,
California. Asked to write something about ancient Egypt for a
local paper competition, she won the contest with her story, Egypt
from a Camel's Point of View. Winning scholarships to Art
Center College of Design in Los Angeles, she also attended UCLA,
studying art, art history and archeology as well as near eastern
studies in graduate school. Deborah studied writing for young
people with Sue Alexander and illustration with Diane Goode. When
an editor from HarperCollins liked her work and offered a contract,
Deborah was so excited she accidentally burned a chicken in the
oven. Now she tells her students at UCLA, "If you want to
get published, it doesn't hurt to make a little burnt offering
to the gods in the process."