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Tel: 413-268-3441
Cel: 413-695-4064
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Biography
Lauren Mills was born in 1957 and grew up in Connecticut, Oregon, and Minnesota. She studied art, literature, and psychology at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota and painting and sculpture at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Connecticut. She received a BA in Art from the University of California at Santa Barbara. After working as a fashion illustrator, she returned to school and received a Master’s degree in Book Illustration from San Jose State University where she met her husband, author and illustrator Dennis Nolan. After moving back east, Lauren taught at the Paier College of Art in Connecticut and began illustrating children’s classics, including At the Back of the North Wind and Anne of Green Gables. The Rag Coat was her first original story. It received the Charlotte Award, thirteen state awards, has been told over the radio, and has been performed as a ballet and a play. Fairy Wings, written by Lauren, and co-illustrated with her husband Dennis Nolan, won the SCBWI Golden Kite Award. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the country, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Lauren and her husband and daughter live in a converted barn in the foothills of the Berkshires in Massachusetts.

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