Mike Venezia
Mike Venezia is a children's book author and illustrator born in New York City, who spent his early years moving between New York and Chicago due to his family's ties in both cities. He began his writing career in 1978, creating and illustrating books for Childrens Press (Grolier/Scholastic), and is known for his engaging biographies of famous figures in the 'Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists' and similar series. He continues to produce educational literature for young readers.
New York City, USA
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Children's Nonfiction
Biography
Art
George Bush: Forty-First President 1989-1993
Warren G. Harding: Twenty-Ninth President 1921-1923 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Daniel Hale Williams: Surgeon Who Opened Hearts and Minds
Mary Cassatt
Pierre Auguste Renoir (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
John Tyler: Tenth President, 1841-1845 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Woodrow Wilson (Getting to Know the US Presidents)
Henry Ford: Big Wheel in the Auto Industry
Alexander Graham Bell: Setting the Tone for Communication
Jane Goodall: Researcher Who Champions Chimps
Lise Meitner: Had the Right Vision About Nuclear Fission
Richard M. Nixon: Thirty-Seventh President 1969-1974 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty-Second President 1933-1945 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Luis Alvarez: Wild Idea Man
Woodrow Wilson: Twenty-Eighth President 1913-1921 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Claude Monet
Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President 1945-1953 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Pablo Picasso
Michelangelo
Leonardo DaVinci
Rembrandt