Ernest Shepard was the original illustrator of which children's stories?
Graham Shepard Graham Shepard Graham Howard Shepard (1907–1943) was an English illustrator and cartoonist. He was the son of Ernest H. Shepard, the illustrator of "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The Wind in the Willows". He was educated at Marlborough College and Oxford. At Marlborough he was a member of the college's secret 'Society of Amici' where he found himself a contemporary of John Betjeman and Anthony Blunt, and a close friend of Louis MacNeice. MacNeice's "The Casualty" (1944) is loosely based on the life and death of Shepard. At Oxford he was a contemporary and friend of MacNeice, Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster. Following in
E. H. Shepard John's Wood and from 1955 in Lodsworth, West Sussex. He and Florence had two children, Graham (born 1907) and Mary (born 1909), who both became illustrators. Lt. Graham Shepard died when his ship HMS "Polyanthus" was sunk by German submarine U-952 in September 1943. Mary married E.V. Knox, the editor of "Punch", and became known as the illustrator of the "Mary Poppins" series of children's books. Florence Shepard died in 1927. In November 1943 Shepard married Norah Carroll, a nurse at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. They remained married until his death in 1976. E. H. Shepard Ernest Howard Shepard (10