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Cateau De Leeuw
CATEAU DE LEEUW (1903-1975) was an American-Dutch children’s story writer.
She was born in Hamilton, Ohio on September 22, 1903, four years after her sister Adele, with whom she collaborated on cr...view moreCATEAU DE LEEUW (1903-1975) was an American-Dutch children’s story writer.
She was born in Hamilton, Ohio on September 22, 1903, four years after her sister Adele, with whom she collaborated on creative works throughout her life. Her family moved to Plainfield, New Jersey when she was ten years old. After graduating from high school, she studied portrait painting at the Metropolitan School of Art and the Art Students’ League in New York. Several years later she opened her own studio in Paris (where she studied for a year in 1930), New York City and Plainfield, New Jersey.
It was during the Depression period that she took up book illustration, and was soon illustrating her sister Adele’s books. She also began collaborating with her sister Adele on short stories for magazines, then produced works of her own. Her first book Hurricane Heart, published in 1943, was followed by more than twenty others—fiction and nonfiction, some for adults, but most of them for young people.
Her books, as well as numerous articles and lectures, reflected the many interests of the De Leeuw sisters, especially in history, which had been stimulated and nurtured during their childhood by extensive family travels throughout South America, Europe, Africa and the Near East. Their Dutch roots are apparent in the Holland and the Dutch East Indies influences throughout their thought and their work.
In 1958, Adele and Cateau received a joint citation from their home state from the Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Association, for “outstanding work over the years for children.”
Cateau De Leeuw passed away in 1975.view less