Re: HIT: Russell and Lillian Hoban

[Suzanne Weinheimer <suzanne@WHATEXIT.COM>]

>> By the way, is this Russell Hoban any relationship to Lillian Hoban who
>> wrote the Arthur (the monkey, not the aardvark!) and Frances (the badger)
>> books?
>>
>
> Russell and Lillian Hoban were married for a couple
>of decades, and they collaborated on at least *some* of the Frances
>books. After their divorce, she went on to do the Arthur series, while
>more of his efforts went into writing adult books.

>The late Lillian Hoban was Russell Hoban's wife at the time that she
>illustrated his Frances books.  Later they divorced -- after which she
>began to write and illustrated the Arthur books and raise their three
>children -- at least one of which, Amy, has also written children's books.
>Russell went to England where he began to focus on books for an older
>audience.  Russell is still living.  Lillian died here in the US a couple
>of years ago.

 Any connecion to author Tana HOBAN?

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