SUSAN PERL né SUSANNE PERLMANN was born and attended school in Vienna. Her family succeeded in emigrating to Italy in 1939 through Italy with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Her sister Erica Merkling also became an illustrator there.
Susan Perl worked as an illustrator at Condé Nast for Vogue, House & Garden and Glamor until 1952. After a stay at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich from 1952 to 1954, she became a freelance illustrator in the USA. She lived in Manhattan .
Perl also worked for advertising and product design. From 1966, her drawings accompanied a PR campaign by the children's clothing manufacturer Healthtex under the title The Handy Answers to Hard Questions Asked by Children in the Health-tex Years .
She has drawn for the magazines Harper's Bazar, Reader's Digest, Columbia Pictures , LIFE and for the children's page in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. She was particularly known for her children's and animal motifs and illustrated a large number of books, including some of her own children's books and also her own comic The Sex Life of the American Female.
JOAN WALSH ANGLUND (1926 - ) was born in Hinsdale, Illinois, the daughter of Thomas F. Anglund, a commercial artist, and Mildred Pfiefer Walsh, a painter. In 1944 she attended the Chicago Art Institute, later transferring to the American Academy of Art in 1945. While studying in Chicago, she became an apprentice commercial artist under the tutelage of Adele Roth. She met Robert Anglund and the couple was married in 1947. Anglund's literary career began after she was inspired to write by a group of neighborhood children playing near her home. While watching the children, she wrote the text for A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You (1958). Many of her illustrations are based on people and places from her own life—particularly her two children, Joy and Todd. As the popularity of her children's works continued to grow, Anglund's artwork began appearing on a wide range of consumer merchandise, including dolls, plates, greeting cards, notebooks, ceramics, calendars, prints, and Christmas ornaments. Beginning in 1979, Anglund started writing and illustrating a special quarterly segment for Good Housekeeping magazine and her artwork has since been featured in Ladies Home Journal, Woman's Day and Family Circle.
Her books have been translated into several languages, published in over fourteen countries, and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide.
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