Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She has worked as a designer, author, illustrator and artist for more than thirty years without formal training. Her work is a narrative journal of her life and all its absurdities. She has written and illustrated twelve children's books including Ooh-la-la- Max in Love, What Pete Ate, and Swami on Rye. She often illustrates for The New Yorker magazine, and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz on the NewYorkistan cover in 2001. Recent projects include The Elements of Style (illustrated), and a monthly on-line column entitled Principles of Uncertainty for The New York Times. She lives in New York and walks a lot. (http://www.saulgallery.com)
Series
Books
My Favorite Things
2014
The Principles of Uncertainty
2007
What Pete Ate from A to Z
2001
Hurry Up and Wait
2015
Next Stop Grand Central
1999
Max Deluxe
1996
Cake
A Cookbook
2018
Weather, Weather
2016
Beloved Dog
2015
Stay Up Late
1987
Darling Baby
2021
Girls Standing on Lawns
2014
Max in Hollywood, Baby
1992
Thomas Jefferson
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything
2014
Sara Berman's Closet
2018
Smartypants
2003
Women Holding Things
A Visual Celebration of Women's Lives and Roles
2022
Swami on Rye
Max in India
1995
Chicken Soup, Boots
1993
Max Makes a Million
1990
Looking at Lincoln
2012
Still Life with Remorse
2024
Sayonara, Mrs. Kackleman
1989
Roarr
Calder's Circus
1991
Ah-Ha to Zig-Zag
31 Objects from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2014
And the Pursuit of Happiness
2010
Ooh-la-la
1991
American Utopia
2020
Fireboat
The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey (Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
2002
Hey Willy, See the Pyramids
1988
