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Author photo. Wikipedia: David Macaulay at the Mazza Museum 2012 Fall Conference where he received the Mazza Medallion.

Wikipedia: David Macaulay at the Mazza Museum 2012 Fall Conference where he received the Mazza Medallion.

David Macaulay

Author of Castle

Includes the names: David McAulay, MacAulay David, David McCaulay, David MacCaulay
Also includes: David Macauley (2)

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David Macaulay was born on December 2, 1946 in Lancashire, England, but moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey when he was 11. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Before becoming an author and illustrator, he worked as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and instructor of interior design at RISD from 1969 to 1973. His first book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, was published in 1973. His other books include City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Mosque, The Way Things Work, Rome Antics, Shortcut,and How Machines Work. He has received numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1991 for Black and White and the Washington Children's Book Guild Award for a Body of Non-Fiction Work in 1977. He won the Royal Society young people¿s book prize for the best science books for children for his book How Machines Work. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Pyramid… (more)
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Castle (Author) 3,065 copies, 47 reviews
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction (Author) 2,789 copies, 26 reviews
The Way Things Work 2,771 copies, 26 reviews
Pyramid (Author) 2,365 copies, 11 reviews
The New Way Things Work 1,730 copies, 14 reviews
Motel of the Mysteries 1,108 copies, 26 reviews
Black and White 1,075 copies, 94 reviews
The Way We Work 874 copies, 13 reviews
Underground (Author) 750 copies, 9 reviews
Mosque 643 copies, 13 reviews
Mill (Author) 584 copies, 9 reviews
Building Big (Author) 566 copies, 4 reviews
The Way Things Work Now (Author) 557 copies, 11 reviews
Ship 509 copies, 1 review
Unbuilding (Author) 476 copies, 8 reviews
Rome Antics 356 copies, 6 reviews
Angelo 289 copies, 13 reviews
Built to Last 278 copies, 3 reviews
Great Moments in Architecture 271 copies, 1 review
Shortcut 222 copies, 16 reviews
Castle: How It Works (My Readers) 179 copies, 6 reviews
Toilet: How It Works 149 copies, 2 reviews
Baaa 129 copies, 6 reviews
Why the Chicken Crossed the Road 126 copies, 8 reviews
Eye: How It Works (My Readers) 109 copies, 3 reviews
How Machines Work: Zoo Break! (Author) 81 copies, 2 reviews
Castle [1983 documentary] (Host) 14 copies, 1 review
Way Things Work game (Author) 3 copies
Cathedral 1 copy
Guys Write for Guys Read (Illustrator) 752 copies, 13 reviews
Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Contributor) 330 copies, 7 reviews
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (Cover artist) 330 copies, 7 reviews
The Amazing Brain (Illustrator) 148 copies, 3 reviews
Help! Let me out! (Illustrator) 6 copies
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