Edward Frascino is an American illustrator and author. He is perhaps best known for his illustrations in
E.B. White's ''
The Trumpet of the Swan
''The Trumpet of the Swan'' is a children's novel by E. B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautifu ...
''.
Biography
Frascino is the son of Mario and Rose Frascino. He is of
Albanian
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*Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular:
**Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans
**Albanian language
**Albanian culture
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and
Italian
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descent.
He attended
Parsons School of Design
The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...
. He served in the U.S. Army in Korea from 1951 to 1953.
His cartoons have appeared in ''
The New Yorker
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'' in a regular series as well as in ''Punch,
Saturday Review'', and ''
The New York Times
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.''
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References
Further reading
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20th-century American writers
20th-century American illustrators
American editorial cartoonists
American humorists
The New Yorker cartoonists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)