미국 일리노이 주에서 태어나 브라운 대학교와 콜럼비아 대학교에서 예술사를 공부했습니다. 1993년 『줄타기 곡예사 미레트』로 칼데콧 상을 수상하였습니다. 그 밖에 『발명가 매티』 『다람쥐 소녀와 뮤어 아저씨』 『비밀축제』 『자연과 함께 걷는 존 뮤어』 등 수많은 그림책을 쓰고 그리며 활발한 작품 활동을 이어 오고 있습니다.

Emily Arnold McCully recommends The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. “Read this book! It is so cool that our greatest novel speaks to young and old alike. It is a story of America, of what haunts us and what redeems us. A magnificently entertaining adventure, hilarious, moving, gorgeous, and shocking, it is great fun to read aloud. The whole family will savor it and want to talk it over.”

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first published in 1884) is recommended for ages 12 and up. McCully is holding an edition illustrated by Steven Kellogg (Morrow, 1994).

Be sure to check out McCully’s picture books Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) and Mirette on the High Wire (G.P. Putnam’s Sons,1992), as well as her young adult biography Ida M. Tarbell, The Woman Who Challenged Big Business and Won (Clarion, 2014).