![]() ![]() He received a medal for drawing on graduating from Junior High School 149. With little encouragement at home, Keats sought validation for his skills at school and learned about art at the public library. Nevertheless, he sometimes brought home tubes of paint, claiming, "A starving artist swapped this for a bowl of soup." ![]() Benjamin Katz, who worked as a waiter, tried to discourage his son, insisting that artists lived terrible, impoverished lives. Jack, as he was known, was artistic from an early age, and joyfully made pictures out of whatever scraps of wood, cloth and paper that he could collect. Jack Keats was born Jacob Ezra Katz on March 11, 1916, in East New York, Brooklyn, the third child of Polish-Jewish immigrants Benjamin Katz and Augusta Podgainy. He was one of the first children's book authors to use an urban setting for his stories and he developed the use of collage as a medium for illustration. Keats is best known for introducing multiculturalism into mainstream American children's literature. It is considered one of the most important American books of the 20th century. Keats wrote A Letter to Amy and Hi, Cat! but he was most famous for The Snowy Day. He won the 1963 Caldecott Medal for illustrating The Snowy Day, which he also wrote. Ezra Jack Keats (né Jacob Ezra Katz MaMay 6, 1983) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. ![]()
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