H.A. Rey
Birth Name:
Hans Augusto Rey
Birth Place:
Hamburg, Germany
Profession
Writer
Fast Facts
- Curious George Takes a Job was included on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1960
- Donated a pair of sketches to a children's literature collection at The University of Southern Mississippi in 1966, the same collection that upon his wife's death would inherit the couple's entire literary estate
- Built a bicycle out of spare parts as Nazi forces approached Paris and fled the city with his wife and their manuscript of the future popular children's book "Curious George․"
- Opened the first advertising agency in Rio de Janeiro with his wife Margret Rey
- Sold bathtubs and sinks in Brazil after moving to Rio de Janeiro circa 1924
- His "Curious George" books have been adapted into many features and television series for children
- Wrote the "Curious George" books, which went on to sell tens of millions of copies
- Brought two pet marmosets on the voyage from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, but they died in transit
- Published "The Stars: A New Way to See Them" in 1952, which contained a new set of constellation diagrams based around brighter stars more easily visible in populated areas
- While hiding out in an old castle in southern France during World War II, villagers reported him and his wife to authorities, who found the couple innocent of suspected bomb-making when they found a studio full of children's book illustrations