Garth Williams

About

American artist and illustrator of children's books who illustrated children's novels such as Charlotte's Web and Little Stuart.

Before Fame

He studied architecture at a young age and worked as an architect's assistant.

Trivia

During the latter part of his life, he was part of a colony of expatriates in Marfil who built homes in the ruins of the silver mines of colonial Mexico.

Family Life

His father worked as a cartoonist for Punch, and his mother was a landscape painter.

Associated With

He illustrated Randall Jarrell's The Gingerbread Rabbit in 1964.