Brian Selznick was born in 1966 in New Jersey. He studied at The Rhode Island School of Design and worked at Eeyore’s Books for Children in New York City.
He wrote and illustrated the books The Houdini Box and The Boy of a Thousand Faces. He has illustrated books for children including Frindle by Andrew Clements, The Doll People by Ann Martin and Laura Godwin, Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam Muñoz Ryan, and The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley, which received a 2001 Caldecott Honor.
He is also the author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the 533-page, genre-breaking book which depends equally on its pictures and its words. The Invention of Hugo Cabret won the 2008 Caldecott Medal, and the first considered novel to do so, as the Caldecott Medal is for illustrations.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and San Diego, California.
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