Susan Perl

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Susan Perl (born as Susanne Perlmann September 8, 1922 in Vienna ; died June 27, 1983 in New York City ) was an Austro-American illustrator.

Life

Susanne Perlmann attended school in Vienna. After the annexation of Austria, her family managed to emigrate via Italy to the USA in 1939 with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Her sister Erica Merkling also became an illustrator there.

Susan Perl worked as an illustrator for the publishing company Condé Nast for Vogue , House & Garden and Glamor until 1952 . After a stay at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich from 1952 to 1954, she became a freelance illustrator in the USA. She lived in Manhattan .

Perl also worked in advertising and product design. From 1966, her drawings accompanied a PR campaign by the children's clothing manufacturer Healthtex under the title The Handy Answers to Hard Questions Asked by Children in the Health-tex Years .

She has sketched for Harper's Bazar , Reader's Digest , Columbia Pictures , LIFE magazines and for the children's page in The New York Times Sunday Magazine . She was particularly known for her children's and animal motifs and illustrated a variety of books, including some of her own children's books and also her own comic The Sex Life of the American Female .

Works (selection)

  • The sex life of the American female . New York, Stein and Day 1964
    • American woman's sex life . Bonn: Hieronimi, 1966
  • I can be anything you can be! . New York: Scroll Press, 1973
  • Susan Perl's human body book . Putnam Pub Group, 1977
  • Human body book . New York, Platt & Munk, 1977
  • You come, too . London: Collier-Macmillan, 1969
  • Let's play . New York: Platt & Munk, 1986
  • with Peter Robinson : Susan Perl's Color wheel . New York: Platt & Munk, 1979
  • with Monica Bayley : Susan Perl's park peepl . San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1982
Illustrations for books by other authors
  • Bill Adler : Letters to Smokey Bear . New York, Wonder Books 1966
  • Sara Asheron , Lilian Moore : How to find a friend . London: Frederick Muller, 1962
  • Sara Asheron : Little Popcorn . New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968
  • Sara Asheron : Surprise in the tree . London: Muller, 1970
  • George Barnet : Stories for fun . New York: Macmillan, 1959
  • Robert B. Brooks : So that's how I was born! New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983
  • Kornei Chukovsky : Telephone . The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1971
  • Marion Conger : Who has seen the wind? New York, Abingdon Press, 1959
  • Judi Culbertson , Patt Bard : Games Christians Play: An Irreverent Guide to Religion Without Tears .
  • Jean Reynolds Davis : A hat on the hall table . South Yarmouth, Mass: John Curley, 1967
  • Phyllis Diller : Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints . Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest Book, 1968
  • Phyllis Diller : Phyllis Diller's Marriage Manual . Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications, 1969
  • June Dutton : Three little books in a box: faith, hope, charity . San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1981
  • June Dutton : Hope is a handful of dreams . San Francisco, ca. : Determined Productions, Inc., 1978
  • Irmengarde Eberle : The Favorite Place .
  • Judy El-Bushra : Family planning education in action: some community-centered approaches . Cambridge: International Extension Collage; London: International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1977
  • Eugene Field : Wynken, Blynken and nod and other favorite poems . New York: Quist, 1964
  • Mary Bayley Fisk : The baby gourmet cookbook . San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1978
  • Margaret Gabel : Sparrows don't drop candy wrappers . New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971
  • Alice Thompson Gilbreath : Beginning-to-read riddles and jokes . Chicago: Follett, 1967
  • Alma Gilleo : Helping is ... . Elgin, Ill .: David C. Cook Pub. Co., 1964
  • Claire Glass Miller : What boys want to know about girls . NY: Grosset, 1962
  • Beth Goff : Where is daddy? : the story of a divorce . Boston: Beacon Press
  • Dan Greenburg : Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant . Bobbs-Merrill, 1969
  • John Greenway : Don't talk to my horse; tall tales from the USA Morristown, NJ, Silver Burdett, 1968
  • John Greenway: Tales from the United States . Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett, 1979
  • Max Gunther : The Weekenders
  • Michael Harwood : Games to play in the car . New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983
  • Bernice Hogan : Now I lay me down to wonder . New York: Abingdon Press, 1961
  • Betty F. Horvath : Small Paul and the bully of Morgan Court . Melbourne: Cheshire, 1971
  • Betty Hubka : Spot, the pocket puppy . New York: Golden Press, 1966
  • Johanna Johnston : The story of: the barber of Seville . New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1966
  • Susanne Kirtland : Easy answers to hard questions . London: Nile and Mackenzie, 1978
    • Susanne Kirtland: Easy answers to difficult questions . Hamburg: Neuer Tessloff Verlag, 1975
  • Barbara Klimowicz : The world-birds of Davy McFifer . Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970
  • Nathan Kravetz : A horse of another color . Boston: Little, Brown, 1962
  • Nathan Kravetz : A monkey's tale . Boston: Little, Brown, 1964
  • Harold S. Longman : What's behind the word? New York, Coward-McCann, 1968
  • Julie Mandel : Books now! Books wow! A book week song. Music and lyrics by Julie Mandel . [A 2 voix et guitare]. New-York: Children's Book council, 1972
  • Patrick McGivern : The ultimate auto . New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1969
  • Leslie McGuire : You: how your body works . New York, Platt & Munk, 1974
  • AA Milne : Once on a Time . Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1962
  • Martha L. Moffett : A flower pot is not a hat . New York: Dutton, 1972
  • Clement Clarke Moore : The Night Before Christmas . New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1964
  • Lilian Moore : Too many bozos . New York: Golden Press, 1960
    • Lilian Moore : Danny's animals are called Bozo . Zurich: Delphin, 1960
  • Lilian Moore : A Pickle for a Nickel . Middletown, Conn. : Xerox Educational Publications, 1961
  • Sara Murphey : Bing-Bang Pig . Chicago: Follett, 1964
  • Solveig Paulson Russell : Motherly Smith & Brother Bimbo . Nashville: Abingdon, 1971
  • Ruth Shaw Radlauer : Stein, the great retriever . New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964
  • Joyce Richards : More easy answers . New York: Platt and Munk, 1977
  • Joyce Richards : How come ...? : Easy answers to hard questions . New York: Platt & Munk, 1981
  • Marguerita Rudolph : Sharp and shiny . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971
  • Myra Scovel : The happiest summer . New York: Harper & Row, 1971
  • Ruth Shaw Radlauer : Stein, the great retriever . Kingswood, Surrey: World's Work, 1966
  • Paul Showers : A book of scary things . Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977
  • Paul Showers: The moon walker . Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975
  • Norah Smaridge : Watch out! Eau Claire, Wis. : Hale, 1968, 1965
  • Norah Smaridge : What a silly thing to do . Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1967
  • Norah Smaridge : You know better than that . Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1973
  • Ralph Underwood : Tell me another joke . New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974
  • Arthur Unger ; Carmel Berman Reingold : What girls want to know about boys . New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962
  • Herb Valen : The boy who could enter paintings . Boston: Little, Brown, 1968
  • William Wise : Sir Howard the coward . New York: Putnam, 1967

literature

  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 152f.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 897

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literature by and about Erica Merkling in the bibliographic database WorldCat
personal data
SURNAME Perl, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perlmann, Susanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1983
Place of death New York City