Elizabeth Orton Jones (June 25, 1910 – May 10, 2005) was an American illustrator and author of children's books. One of her illustrated works Prayer for a Child won the 1945 Caldecott Medal for illustration.
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“You were born with your legs apart. They’ll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.”
—Joe Orton (1933–1967)
“Intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)