Strega Nona by Paola Tomie de6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Although he liked teaching and his students liked him, he says, “I never saw teaching as a career. Instead, he moved to New York City and commuted to a college teaching position in Boston. After graduating from Pratt Institute in 1956 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, he thought he wanted to become a Benedictine monk and joined a small monastery in Weston, Vermont. ![]() ![]() There was a time in de Paola’s life, however, when he was not so confident about his future. At the age of four, Tomie de Paola announced, “I am going to be an artist when I grow up and I am going to write stories and draw pictures for books and sing and dance on stage.” After celebrating his 75th birthday, de Paola declares that not only has he achieved each of these goals, “I got paid for them, too!” ![]()
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