Sibley, who was asked to write a new Pooh story to mark this year's anniversary, said that the photo of the author and his son with the penguin toy came to mind while he was "pondering what other toys Christopher Robin might have owned but which were never written about".
Emerging and established writers alike will be inspired and fascinated by the photos of the authors, which are accompanied by their own descriptions on individual creative routines and spaces.
Many, like the photo of the closet, above, of Tracy Quan, an author and former call girl, leave you longing to know more about the life of the garments, and their owners.
The text is rounded off by the photos of the first author, the artist.
Taking up the triangle idea, this article is structured as a report on the project, consisting of three parts, namely the framing text of the third author, who is an aquatic toxicologist, fragments of the opening speech to the exhibition held by the second author, an art historian, and the photos of the exhibition by the first author, an artist.
PS: Thanks to the folks at Gut Check Fitness for the photo of delight... Author, speaker, facilitator...all with a dash of "mild audacity".
Besides, even his biggest fans have very little idea what he looks like, given that the most widely circulated photo of the author is a yearbook portrait taken in 1953, when he was 16 years old and a pupil at Oyster Bay High School on Long Island.
I admired the handsome little book, its cover printed with a photo of the author; inside were lovely, tiny tipped-in color reproductions of the paintings under discussion (including works by Brueghel, Watteau, and Cranach the Elder).
Photo of the author in the 80s courtesy of Larry Tyler.
Photo of the author leaping from the Vulkana.
