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Virginia Lee Burton—referred to in places by her married name, Virginia or Jinnee Demetrios—was an illustrator and children’s book author who lived from 1909 to 1968. Burton was born in Newton Center, Massachusetts and moved to California with her family when she was eight. After a year at art school in San Francisco, she came to Boston in 1928, where she worked as a sketcher for the Boston Evening Transcript newspaper and took a drawing class from artist and sculptor George Demetrios, who she married in 1931. Soon afterward, they moved to Folly Cove, Gloucester, Massachusetts, where Burton lived and worked for the rest of her life. She and George had two sons, Aristides and Michael, known as Aris and Mike. In addition to her acclaimed children’s books, she is also known for founding the Folly Cove Designers: a group of artisans she trained in printmaking using her own design theory and curriculum.
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