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Maira Kalman, la mujer ilustrada

La autora e ilustradora Maira Kalman habla sobre su vida y su trabajo, desde sus portadas para The New Yorker hasta sus libros para niños y adultos. Ella es tan maravillosa, tan sabia y tan deliciosamente excentrica en persona como en papel.

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La autora e ilustradora Maira Kalman habla sobre su vida y su trabajo, desde sus portadas para The New Yorker hasta sus libros para niños y adultos. Ella es tan maravillosa, tan sabia y tan deliciosamente excentrica en persona como en papel.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

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Maira Kalman's wise, witty drawings have appeared on numberless New Yorker covers, in a dozen children's books, and throughout the pages of the Elements of Style. Her latest book, The Principles of Uncertainty, is the result of a year-long illustrated blog she kept for the New York Times.

Maira Kalman | Puffin, 2003 | Book

What Pete Ate From A-Z

William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White | Illustrations by Maira Kalman Penguin Books, 2007 | Book

The Elements of Style

Michael Pollan | Illustrations by Maira Kalman Penguin Press, 2011 | Book

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Maira Kalman | Nancy Paulsen Books, 2012 | Book

Looking at Lincoln

Daniel Handler | Illustrations by Maira Kalman Little, Brown Books, 2013 | Book

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