Once she graduated from college, she found it hard getting a job and ended up working for an advertising agency as a quasi-secretary. She had always loved to write and draw but she preferred the idea of being an illustrator rather than a painter since she believed it would be easier to make money as the former. As for inspiration, there were several books that she loved during this time but her favorite was “Freddy the Detective.” She also loved classics such as “Winnie the Pooh” and “Alice in Wonderland.” These books serve as an inspiration and she still enjoys them whenever she has the time. She would also make up a lot on her own and as such used illustrations as a way of telling her stories right from the very beginning. She also loved and followed comic strips and read a lot of the newspapers from New York City that came with the strips. As such, she decided to venture into something that she had never tried before just to be normal.Įmily McCully wrote a lot as a child as she started making little books full of stories as soon as she started to read. For years, people had stood around her as he drew, marveling at how well she reproduced something or someone. She said that at the time she was fed up with the weirdness that was constant in the life of an artist. She went to college at Brown University, then Pembroke College but instead of studying drawing she was drawn towards art history, reading, and theater. She believes that her talent in drawing could someday open the doors for a professional career that would support her.
Emily has asserted that it was her mother who recognized that she was trying to draw objects and audiences and encouraged her as she developed her art. It was her mother that inspired the creative streak in her even as she was a child. She comes from a creative family as her father wrote for radio shows and her mother was a singer and actress. McCully is a native of Galesburg, Illinois, though she spent much of her childhood in the New York suburb of Garden City. Emily Arnold McCully is an American illustrator and children’s fiction author best known for “Mirette on the High Wire” a US picture book illustration she wrote in 1993.
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