![]() Marshall won a University of Mississippi Silver Medallion in 1992, and received the Caldecott Honor in 1989 for Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Sendak said that Marshall was "uncommercial to a fault," and as a consequence was not greatly recognized by the awards committee. Marshall was a friend of Maurice Sendak, who mentions him as the "last in the line" of children's writers for whom children's books were a cottage industry. In 1998, George and Martha became the basis of an eponymous animated children's television show. Marshall continued as a children's author until his untimely death in 1992 of a brain tumor. ![]() His mother was watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and the main characters, George and Martha, ultimately became characters in one of his children's books. ![]() ![]() It is said that he discovered his vocation on a 1971 summer afternoon, lying on a hammock drawing. ![]()
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