David Macaulay

David Macaulay © Sarah Priestap

© Sarah Priestap

Born in England in 1946, David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages.

Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given “to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.”

Macaulay has an uncanny ability to turn complex mechanical principles and the long history of scientific and technological development into clear, fluent and interesting illustrations that have captured the hearts of readers of all ages.David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.

 

Related events
15 November, 10:10–10:55

New Book Launch: How Machines Work, by Caldecott Medal Author David Macauley
Event venue: Stage 3
Event host: Publishing House of Electronics Industry
Exhibitors’ event; Event in Chinese and English; Open to all visitors

16 November, 10:10–11:10
Book Talk: "Interest can be a Lever to Move the World", with David Macaulay
Guests: David Macaulay (USA), Author and Illustrator, Caldecott Medal and Honor Book Winner
Event venue: Booth 4D02
Event host: Publishing House of Electronics Industry & DangDang
Exhibitors’ Event; Event in Chinese and English; open to all CCBF visitors