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Madye Lee Chastain

Author, Illustrator

(1908 - 1989)

Madye Lee Chastain was a children’s book author and illustrator who wrote 17 children’s books from 1945-1964, most of them for Harcourt, and she illustrated children’s books written by other authors as well as her own.

She studied at Oglethorpe University, but dropped out of the University to attend the Art School of High Museum in Atlanta. She later studied at Grand Central Art School in New York, and at Columbia University. She died in December 1989, in Boulder, Colorado.



Bibliography

Magic Island (1964)

Orphaned girl, Angel Thorne goes on a voyage by clipper ship from New York to Barbados with an exciting winter spent there not only restore herself to complete health but to also give her new friends and her own special place. Read online at Internet... View More

Author(s): Madye Lee Chastain
Illustrator(s): Madye Lee Chastain

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