Roger Dovoisin Biography
Duvoisin was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1900. He learned to draw early having been encouraged by his father, who was an architect, and his godmother, a well-known painter of enamels. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. ... He married Louise Fatio, another artist from Switzerland.

Next he became the manager of a French pottery plant. It was in this time, in 1925, that he married Louise Fatio. He was recruited into designing textiles which took him to Paris. In 1927, he was recruited by an American textile firm in New York to come and work for them. He made a commitment to relocate for a minimum of four years and he and Fatio moved to New York.
(he became a citizen in 1938).

He won the 1948 Caldecott Medal for picture books and in 1968 he was a highly commended runner-up for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's illustrators.  In 1961 he received an award from the Society of Illustrators.  In 1966 he received the Rugers Bi-Centennial award.

Writer, book Illustrator