Marjorie Ann Watts Illustrator & Author

Marjorie Ann Watts trained as a painter and illustrator with Edward Ardizzone and Harold Jones, then worked as an art editor and typographer. She worked as an illustrator (on books such as Catherine Storr’s Marianne Dreams), before beginning to write and illustrate her own books for children. She has also written a novel and a guide to European painting for young people. Her father was a Punch cartoonist and graphic artist; her grandmother founded PEN International, as well as writing several volumes of poetry and twenty novels. She lives in London.