MARCIA WILLIAMS
BIOGRAPHY
Marcia Williams' mother was a writer and her father a playwright
and theatre director. She spent the early part of her life
in Canton, Hong Kong, Nigeria and the Middle East with her
mother and diplomat stepfather. She loved books from an
early age and remembers being read to almost every night:
"I would often be scared, especially by fairy tales,
but I never wanted the stories to end." She went to
boarding school in Sussex, from where she sent weekly illustrated
letters to her parents overseas.
Marcia didn't receive any formal art training. She calls
herself "an obsessive illustrator. I've just always
done it. I never consciously thought that's what I wanted
to do." She had a number of jobs, including nursery
teacher, which is when she developed her taste for story-telling
to young children: "I learned what they found accessible
and what they enjoyed." Giving up teaching to paint,
she studied watercolour at Richmond College ad held some
successful local exhibitions before a friend suggested she
take her work to show Walker Books. Marcia lives in London
and has two grown-up children and three grandchildren.
Marcia has written and illustrated numerous books since
The First Christmas was published in 1987. Many of these
have been retellings of classic stories - from Noah's Ark
to Don Quixote - illustrated in her distinctive strip-cartoon
style. She works in watercolours which, she says, "are
just unreliable enough to be interesting." She has
retold several of Shakespeare's plays and taken to the boards
herself to play the Bard in a production based on her books
Mr. William Shakespeare's Plays and Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare!
- culminating in a performance in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Marcia also created the wonderful Images of Delight
dog!
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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The ark drifted
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Sandy beach |
Blue ark on water
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Excalibur
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God
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Welcome aboard |
In never rained
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Pink ark on water
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Princess Elaine
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Sir Lancelot
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The King is Dead
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
The First Christmas, first published 1987 by
Walker Books Ltd
The Amazing Story of Noah's Ark, first published
1988 by Walker Books Ltd
When I Was Little, first published 1989 by Walker
Books Ltd
Jonah and the Whale, first published 1989 by
Walker Books Ltd
Joseph and his Magnificent Coat of Many Colours,
first published 1990 by Walker Books Ltd
No Worries!, (Not a Worry in the World) first
published 1990 by Walker Books Ltd
Greek Myths, first published 1991 by Walker Books
Ltd
Don Quixote, first published 1993 by Walker Books
Ltd
Sinbad the Sailor, first published 1994 by Walker
Books Ltd
The Adventure of Robin Hood, first published
1995 by Walker Books Ltd
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table,
first published 1996 by Walker Books Ltd
The Illiad and the Odyssey, first published 1996
by Walker Books Ltd
Mr. William Shakespeare's Plays, first published
1998 by Walker Books Ltd
Fabulous Monsters, first published 1999 by Walker
Books Ltd
Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare!, first published
2000 by Walker Books Ltd
Charles Dickens and Friends, first published
2002 by Walker Books Ltd
God and His Creations, first published 2004 by
Walker Books Ltd
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