Dayal kaur khalsa biography books

American-Canadian children's book author

Dayal Kaur Khalsa (April 17, 1943 – July 17, 1989) was the American-born author and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books. She discovered her talent in Canada, where she had moved in 1970.

Over the span of four short years before her death at the age of 46, she managed to write and illustrate eight picture books, three of them published posthumously.

Biography

Born Marcia Schonfeld in Queens, New York, young Dayal Kaur spent her days with her Grandma Shapiro while both her parents worked.

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Her childhood with her grandmother formed the basis of her works, especially Tales of a Gambling Grandma. Grandma Shapiro's death in 1951 when Dayal Kaur was nine was devastating to her.^[1]

Dayal Kaur graduated from the City College of New York in 1963 and attended The Arts Students League from 1964 to 1965.

Though she still lived at home, Dayal Kaur had a loft space in Lower Manhattan and asso