Penny Dann
{{Short description|British children's book illustrator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox author
| birth_date = 30 June 1964
| death_date = {{d-da|20 December 2014|30 June 1964}}
| alma_mater = Brighton College of Art
| birth_place = Slough, England
| spouse = Tom Sanderson (m. 2014)
| death_place = Brighton, England
}}
Penny Dann (30 June 1964 – 20 December 2014) was a British children's book illustrator and creator of The Secret Fairy.{{cite web |author=Eccleshare |first=Julia |date=2015-01-23 |title=Penny Dann obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/23/penny-dann |accessdate=2015-04-23 |website=The Guardian |publisher= |archive-date=10 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510223900/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/23/penny-dann |url-status=live }} She was known for her "humorous and vivacious style". Alongside writing and illustrating her own works, she illustrated over 100 children's books.{{Cite web |title=Penny Dann |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/363864.Penny_Dann |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=Goodreads |archive-date=28 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128224638/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/363864.Penny_Dann |url-status=live }}
Biography
Dann was born 30 June 1964 in Slough, England to Julian and Jill Dann.{{Cite web |title=Penny Dann Books |url=https://www.hachette.com.au/penny-dann/ |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=Hachette Australia |archive-date=12 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612144412/https://www.hachette.com.au/penny-dann/ |url-status=live }} She studied visual communication at the Brighton College of Art, where a tutor, Raymond Briggs, "encouraged her to develop her character drawings," which "became the basis of her later work". A piece shared at her end-of-degree show was published in 1985 as One of the Pot.
Following graduation, she remained in Brighton, though she lived in Sydney and Melbourne in the 1990s and early 2000s. After returning to Brighton, she met Tom Sanderson, "whom she married a few days before her death".
She died from cancer on 20 December 2014.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015-01-07 |title=Obituary Notes: Tomaž Šalamun; Penny Dann |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2416 |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=Shelf Awareness |archive-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207193342/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2416 |url-status=live }}
Awards and honours
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Category:British children's book illustrators
Category:British women children's book illustrators
Category:British children's writers
Category:British women children's writers
Category:Writers who illustrated their own writing
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Category:Alumni of the University of Brighton
Category:21st-century English women artists
Category:20th-century English women artists