塔莎·杜朵

塔莎·杜朵（英语：Tasha Tudor，1915年8月28日—2008年6月18日）是一位美国插画家和儿童文学作家。生于马萨诸塞州波士顿。父亲是飞机设计师W. Starling Burgess，母亲是肖像画家Rosamond Tudor。原名Starling Burgess。因为其父亲喜欢《战争与和平》中的人物“娜塔莎”，故不久给其更名为“娜塔莎”，简称“塔莎”。由于其母亲在向她的朋友介绍是常常称她为“Rosamund Tudor's daughter，Tasha”（Rosamond Tudor的女儿，塔莎），故很多人误认为他姓Tudor。由于这个姓发音好听，所以在其第一次离婚后，就正式更名为Tasha Tudor。她受父母影响较很大，她从其父亲那里继承了想象力和独创性，从母亲那里学习绘画。由于向往田园生活，所以她15岁辍学去过一个人的田园生活。1938年出版了自己的处女作《南瓜月光》（Pumpkin Moonshine）一举成名。同年与Thomas McCready结婚并定居康涅狄格州。她与丈夫育有两男两女。后来她与丈夫在新罕布什尔州买了一处巨大的古旧农场。1961年两人离婚。之后塔莎·杜朵与Allan John Woods有过一段短暂的婚姻。1971年，定居佛蒙特州，直至去世。

书籍作品

同时作为文字作者与插画者

《Pumpkin Moonshine》

《Mother Goose》，获得1945年凯迪克奖的银牌奖

《1 is One》，获得1957年凯迪克奖的银牌奖

作为插画者

Tasha Tudor (August 28, 1915 – June 18, 2008) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

Biography

Tasha Tudor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, as Starling Burgess, the daughter of naval architect W. Starling Burgess and noted portrait painter Rosamund Tudor. At birth, she was named "Starling" after her father, but he was an admirer of the War and Peace character Natasha, and his daughter was soon re-christened Natasha, which was later shortened to Tasha. She spent her early years in Marblehead, Massachusetts, before her father's work relocated the family to North Chevy Chase in Maryland to help with the wartime effort.

Tasha’s parents divorced when she was nine, following her mother's rejection of the strict society in Boston in favor of a more Bohemian existence as a painter in Greenwich Village. As a result, Tasha went to live with friends of the family in Redding, Connecticut. Life in this household was far more creative and less structured. Tasha and the other children were largely left to their own devices. Tasha later referred to this unconventional atmosphere as "the best thing that ever happened to me". The children spent much of their time performing scenes from Shakespeare and in plays written by "Aunt Gwen", the household matriarch.

Tasha had developed a strong desire to live an agrarian lifestyle in the New England countryside, and she worked to advance her dream even while still young. In her teen years she earned and saved enough pocket money to purchase a cow she named Delilah.

When socializing with her mother's friends, Tudor was usually introduced as "Rosamund Tudor's daughter, Tasha", leading others to believe that her last name was Tudor. Liking the sound of it, she adopted the name and eventually changed her surname legally following her second divorce. She married Thomas McCready in 1938 in Redding, Connecticut. Tasha and Thomas McCready purchased a large old farm in Webster, New Hampshire, where four children, Bethany, Seth, Thomas, and Efner, were raised. Her first story, Pumpkin Moonshine, was published in 1938, as a gift for a young niece of her husband. They were divorced in 1961, and her children legally changed their names from McCready to Tudor. A later marriage to Allan John Woods lasted only a brief time.

Tasha Tudor illustrated nearly one hundred books, the last being Corgiville Christmas, released in 2003. Several were collaborative works with a New Hampshire friend Mary Mason Campbell. She also collaborated in 1957 with Nell Dorr to produce the 24-minute 16mm film The Golden Key: Enter the Fantasy World of Tasha Tudor. Tudor lived in Marlboro, Vermont, in a house copied from that of other New Hampshire friends Donn and Doris Purvis. Her sons Seth and Tom built the replication and son Seth lived next door with his family. It is documented in Drawn from New England, and in The Private World of Tasha Tudor. Mother and son as well as daughter Efner, who published a couple of books together with Tasha Tudor, worked closely on family endeavors.

Awards

She received many awards and honors, including Caldecott Honors for Mother Goose in 1945 and 1 Is One in 1957. She received the Regina Medal in 1971 for her contributions to children's literature. Her books feature simple and often rhyming text accompanied by detailed and realistic drawings with soft colors. Text and pictures are often bordered by intricate details such as flowers, birds or other charming objects and animals. The visual or textual content often refers to traditions, artifacts or memories of the 19th century. Her books are highly valued possessions of an appreciative audience—one that has grown since she was first represented in the 1940s by the Pennsylvania shop The Dutch Inn in Mill Hall. She also created thousands of original works of art which appear on Christmas cards, Advent calendars, Valentines, posters, and in other forms. The original art is found in museums, libraries and hundreds of private collections around the world.