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Esther Averill
Esther Averill (July 24, 1902 – May 19, 1992) was an American writer and illustrator best known for the Cat Club picture books, a collection of 13 stories featuring Jenny Linsky, a small black cat who always wears a red scarf. She was also an editor and publisher.
==Life==
Averill was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on July 24, 1902, daughter of Charles Ketchum and Helen (Holden) Averill,〔"Esther (Holden) Averill." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003.〕 where she was a teenage cartoonist for a local newspaper.〔 After graduating from Vassar College with honors in 1923,〔Vassar Miscellany News, Volume VII, Number 58, 15 June 1923〕 she joined the editorial staff of ''Women's Wear Daily''. In 1925 she moved to Paris, France to work as a photojournalist's assistant. In 1931, Averill founded the Domino Press, which specialized in "children's picture books illustrated by gifted young artists and reproduced by means of the excellent color processes that were available". Domino's first publication was a book entitled ''Daniel Boone : les adventures d'un chasseur americain parmi les peaux-rogues'', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky (who later won a U.S. Caldecott Medal for picture book illustration). Averill worked on an English edition of the same title also released in 1931.〔Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1946〕 Domino published several other children's books before it ceased operations in 1938.
Averill returned to the United States in 1941,〔http://www.nybooks.com/books/authors/esther-averill/〕 continuing with Domino press until it ceased operations and then working in the children's department at the New York Public Library.〔 In 1944, she wrote and illustrated ''The Cat Club'', the first in a series of stories about a cat, Jenny Linsky, who lived in New York City with her master, the benevolent Captain Tinker. Between 1944 and 1972, Averill wrote and illustrated a dozen more stories about Jenny Linsky and her cat friends, all of whom were based on cats Averill owned or knew. The cat club books proved to be Averill's most popular works, and were eventually translated into six languages.〔Rollyson, Carl. Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works, January 2007, p1, 1p〕 Starting in 2003,〔Schwarz, Christina. Atlantic Monthly (10727825). Dec2003, Vol. 292 Issue 5, p131-132. 2p.〕 a series of reissues by the New York Review Children's Collection brought all the cat club titles except for ''Jenny's Bedside Book'' back into print.
Averill died in New York City on May 19, 1992.
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