Margery Williams was born in July of 1882. She was an English-American author of numerous novels and children’ s books, most notably The Velveteen Rabbit. She is also the author of The Little Wooden Doll, The Skin Horse, as well as many other highly regarded children’ s works. She passed away in 1944, just before the end of World War II.
Sir William Nicholson was a renowned English illustrator and artist, who both supplied illustrations for children’ s literature as well as wrote it himself. In addition to providing the illustrations for The Velveteen Rabbit, he authored two children’ s books entitled Clever Bill and The Pirate Twins. Nicholson also worked in other areas of design, including theater set design; he designed the original set for Peter Pan in 1904. In the 1928 Summer Olympics, Nicholson was awarded a gold medal for his graphic work in the Arts competitions. He passed away in May of 1949.
