NANCY-SELIGSOHN-Obituary

NANCY SELIGSOHN

New York, New York

1929 - 2019

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SELIGSOHN--Nancy Charlotte. Artist and illustrator of celebrated books Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board, and Pippi on the Seven Seas (Scholastic paperback series 1959-60, first American printing). Nancy died at age 90 on December 14, 2019. Born in Manhattan on March 26, 1929 to Samuel and...

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I remember being friends with her for a number of years and visiting her at her apartment on East 15th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. She would show me her oldrr and recent sketches and I would show her my sketchbook. We would talk about the application books, and I shared how those stories impressed me as a child and was so honored to know the lovely artist who created them. Nancy was deeply sensitive and philosophical, witty and stylish. We sometimes had lunchntogether, and then I...