Editing David Macaulay (section)

{{short description|British-born American illustrator and writer (born 1946)}}
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| name             = David Macaulay
| image            = David Macaulay.jpg
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| caption          = Macaulay at the [[University of Findlay's Mazza Museum]], November 2012
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| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1946|12|02}}<ref name= "NCCIL">{{cite web |title=David Macaulay — Artists at NCCIL |url=https://www.nccil.org/artists/david-macaulay |website=NCCIL.org |publisher=The [[National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature]] |access-date=9 June 2018 |language=en-us |date=9 June 2018 |archive-date=20 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720135951/https://www.nccil.org/artists/david-macaulay |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| birth_place      = [[Burton upon Trent]], [[Staffordshire]], England<ref name="Mac" />
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| occupation       = Illustrator, writer
| education        = [[Rhode Island School of Design]] [[Bachelor of Arts|(B.A.)]]
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| genre            = Picture books
| subject          = Architecture, engineering, history
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| notableworks     = {{plainlist |
* ''[[Cathedral (children's book)|Cathedral]]''
* ''[[Castle (Macaulay book)|Castle]]''
* ''[[The Way Things Work]]''
* ''[[Black and White (picture book)|Black and White]]''
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* [[MacArthur Fellows Program]]
* [[Caldecott Medal]]
* [[Horn Book Award]]
* [[Christopher Award]]
* [[American Institute of Architects#Honors and awards|American Institute of Architects Medal]]
* [[Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis]]
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'''David Macaulay''' (born 2&nbsp;December 1946)<ref name="NCCIL" /> is a British-born [[American people|American]] illustrator and writer. His works include ''[[Cathedral (children's book)|Cathedral]]'' (1973), ''[[The Way Things Work]]'' (1988), and its updated revisions ''The New Way Things Work'' (1998) and ''The Way Things Work Now'' (2016). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design, and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books.

In 2006, Macaulay was a recipient of a [[MacArthur Fellows Program]] award and received the [[Caldecott Medal]] in 1991 for his book ''[[Black and White (picture book)|Black and White]]'', published in 1990.