Books By Russell Hoban, Lillian Hoban - Author

Russell Hoban (b. 1925) is the author of more than seventy books for children and adults. He grew up in Pennsylvania with two sisters (one of whom, Tana Hoban, became a noted photographer and children's book author) and attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, where he met his future wife and collaborator Lillian Aberman. Hoban worked as a commercial artist and advertising copywriter before embarking on a career as a children's author while in his early thirties. Soon the Hobans were collaborating on books, Russell writing the text and Lillian drawing the pictures. During the 1960s the couple worked at a prodigious rate, producing as many as six books in a single year-many inspired by life with their own four children-including six stories about Frances the badger, The Little Brute Family, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, and The Mouse and His Child. Russell Hoban's other books for young readers include The Marzipan Pig, Trouble on Thunder Mountain, and two books about