Ian Falconer

Ian Falconer is a set designer, noted illustrator and bestselling author of children’s fiction works. He was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1959, to The Cambridge School of Weston, and then to New York University where he studied art history.Falconer has had a varied career as he has worked in the fine arts, publishing, ballet, and opera. In the publishing world, he is best known as the illustrator and author of the “Olivia” series, which has been one of his most popular.He made his debut writing children’s fiction when he penned “Olivia,” the first of the “Olivia” series. The series follows the life and times of a young pig that he initially intended as only a gift for his young niece.