Howard Pyle
1853–1911
Biography
Howard Pyle (1853–1911) was an American illustrator, painter and writer, best known now for his books for young readers. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware. In 1910 he travelled to Florence, Italy, to study mural painting, and he died there the following year of a sudden kidney infection.
Most of his working life was spent making pictures for stories. He drew for magazines such as Harper's and St. Nicholas, and he is often credited with fixing the modern picture of pirates, down to their clothes. In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute, and after 1900 he ran his own school. His pupils included N. C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish and Violet Oakley, and a later scholar gave the name Brandywine School to artists of that region, several of whom had studied with him.
His most famous book, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, first appeared in 1883 and is still in print. It is the book by him on this site, and it shows the medieval setting that appears in much of his other work, including a four-volume set on King Arthur. Readers who meet Pyle through it meet the storyteller and the illustrator at once.
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Books
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Pyle compiled the traditional Robin Hood ballads as a series of episodes of a coherent narrative. For his characters' dialog, Pyle adapted…
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