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This book was not Macaulay??s first dip into religious architecture. His foray into the publishing industry actually commenced with Cathedral, which outlined the construction of a fourteenth-century French Gothic cathedral. Yet the book, as well as Macaulay??s entire three-decade career, almost didn’t occur...
...original concept for Macaulay??s first children’s book was that of a gargoyle beauty pageant set in the Middle Ages, against the backdrop of a half-finished cathedral. Macaulay said his editor, Walter Lorraine, took one glance at the drawings of flying gargoyles in the cathedral and asked, “Why don’t you just tell us about the cathedral? There’s enough fantasy stuff out there, but this is something we haven’t seen.” The rest is history...
...Macaulay??s training as an architect—he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in architecture—allows him to pull double duty as both writer and illustrator, and maintain full creative control over his books. It is that control which appealed to him about book production, causing him to decide, just months before graduating college, that architecture was “a profession of compromise” between all those involved in the industry...
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