作者
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1959年8月25日)
伊恩・福尔克纳，为《纽约客》杂志画过无数的插画以及封面，他也曾替纽约市芭蕾舞团做过服装及舞台设计，做过旧金山歌剧院和英国皇家歌剧院的舞台设计。《奥莉薇》是伊恩的第一本童书，却一鸣惊人，该书不仅名列“出版人周刊”的年度畅销绘本第四名，至今仍居纽约时报的每周畅销绘本榜，这只可爱的小肥猪也为伊恩赢得2001年凯迪克银牌奖。
Ian Woodward Falconer (born August 25, 1959) is an American author and illustrator of children's books, and a designer of sets and costumes for the theater. He has created 30 covers for The New Yorker as well as other publications. Falconer wrote and illustrated the Olivia series of children's books, chronicling the adventures of a young pig, a series initially conceived as a Christmas gift for his young niece. Born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, Falconer graduated from The Cambridge School of Weston, studied art history at New York University, and studied painting at Parsons School of Design and the Otis Art Institute.