Sophie Blackall Biography

Sophie Blackall is an Australian artist based in Brooklyn who has illustrated over twenty books for children, including the Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning Ruby Wish Meet Wild Boars, which won a Founder Award from the Society of Illustrators and a BCCB Blue Ribbon Award Big Red Lollipop, which was a New York Times Top Ten Picture Book in 2010 Pecan Pie Baby, which won a Horn Book honor in 2011, and the New York Times bestselling series Ivy and Bean. Missed Connections: Love Lost & Found is Blackall's first adult novel (Workman Publishing; October 2011) began in early 2009 as a blog "missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com" and continues today as a series of paintings based on genuine anonymous letters written online by lovelorn strangers. Her editorial illustrations have featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, TIME, and several other publications. Her poster, which was commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit program, is being shown in subway carriages around New York City. She is thrilled to be working with The Measles and Rubella Initiative on a series of artworks to support measles eradication via vaccine.

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