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Philip S. Palmer is an ATBL Advisory Council member. He is the Robert H. Taylor Curator and Department Head of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum. He holds a Ph.D. in early modern English literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and worked at UCLA's Clark Library for five years before coming to the Morgan. He has curated exhibitions on Woody Guthrie and The Little Prince, and is actively planning two upcoming shows, on Beatrix Potter and Belle da Costa Greene. He is the curator of the Morgan Library & Museum's current exhibition, The Little Prince: Taking Flight.
Michael Patrick Hearn is a freelance writer who often writes on international children’s literature and illustration. He studied with the late Alex Haley and his first job out of college was consulting editor with Cricket Magazine in its formative years. His many books include The Annotated Wizard of Oz, The Annotated Christmas Carol, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn; and he is currently working on The Annotated Edgar Allan Poe. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Nation and other newspapers and periodicals. He has taught graduate courses at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Queens College and Simmons College. He previously lectured at the Morgan Library on Beatrix Potter and her Peter Rabbit Books.
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